Legal Opinion
Jones v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 4, 1908No. 1,497PublishedCited by 44 opinions
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Oregon.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs in error were defendants in the court below to an indictment based upon the provisions of section 5440 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3076), which reads as follows:
“If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any X>urpose, and one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, all the parties to such conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars,…
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