Asgill v. United States

WATKINS, District Judge.

Appellants, Sarah Asgill and B. J. Hill, were tried and convicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in July, 1931, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States; the indictment being brought under section 37 of the Penal Code (18 USCA § 88). Included in the indictment were four others, Alice White Allen, Robert Thomas, Z. Fleming Lyman, and Mary Hill, all of whom were acquitted except Alice White Allen, who entered a plea of guilty. For convenience, appellants will ’hereinafter be designated as defendants.

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