Williams v. United States

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error (herein called defendants) were convicted under an indictment against them and others which, omitting formal parts, charged as follows:

“That heretofore, to wit, on or about the 1st day of September, 1922, at Houston, Tex., one J. E. Williams, one Charles Poe, one C. C. Hanley, one John F. Doak, one John B. Yoeham, one H. H. Dietz, one J. M. Morgan, one James L. Doak, and one Val Callaway entered into a conspiracy in restraint of trade and commerce among the several states in violation of section 1, chapter 647 of the Act of Congress of July 2,…