Legal Opinion
United States v. Shirey
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 20, 1959No. 72PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Frankfurter
On July 23, 1954, an information was filed -in the District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania charging appellee with a violation of 18 U. S. C. § 214 (originally § 1 of the Act of December 11, 1926, 44 Stat. 918). That statute provides:
“Whoever pays or offers or promises any money or thing of value, to any person, firm, or corporation *256in consideration of the use or promise to use any influence to procure any appointive office or place under the United States for any person, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”
The information alleged…
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