Legal Opinion
Salas v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 24, 1916No. 170PublishedCited by 34 opinions
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Jacob L. Salas was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States, demurrer to the indictment having been overruled (United States v. Burke, 221 Fed. 1014), and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
This is a writ of error to a judgment convicting the defendant Salas of conspiring with one Bermudez and one Burke to defraud the United States under section 37 of the Penal Code, which reads:
“Sec. 37. 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 purpose, and one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”
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