Cochran & Sayre v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE DISTRICT OE COLORADO. This was a writ of error to review a conviction of William H. Cochran, president, and Robert H. Sayre, assistant cashier, of the First National Bank of Del Norte, Colorado, for making a' false entry in a report to the Comptroller of the Currency.
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE DISTRICT OE COLORADO. This was a writ of error to review a conviction of William H. Cochran, president, and Robert H. Sayre, assistant cashier, of the First National Bank of Del Norte, Colorado, for making a' false entry in a report to the Comptroller of the Currency. On November 22, 1893, the grand jury presented three separate indictments against the plaintiffs in error, which were numbered 959, 960, and 992 respectively. These indictments were identical in language, except so far as it was necessary to change them, so that the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
As the defendants were convicted solely upon the first count in indictment No. 960, it is only necessary to consider the questions arising upon this count.
1. The first assignment of error relates to the sufficiency of this count, which charges that “.Robert II. Sayre, . . . William H. Cochran being then and there president, the said Robert H. Sayre being then and there assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Del Norte, Colorado, . . . did make, in a certain report of the condition of the First National Bank, .. . at the close of business on the 30th of September, 1892, made to the…
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