Frankfurt v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas; Gordon Russell, Judge. Ben Frankfurt was convicted of conspiracy to conceal the property of a bankrupt, and of concealing the property, and he brings error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas; Gordon Russell, Judge. Ben Frankfurt was convicted of conspiracy to conceal the property of a bankrupt, and of concealing the property, and he brings error. The second count of the indictment was as follows: “Second Count: And the grand jurors aforesaid upon their said oaths do further present in and to said court chat on, to wit, the 9th day of December, 1914, the said John W. Easterwood, Rufus Easterwood, Ben Frankfurt, and S. W. Skinner did then and there unlawfully, corruptly, fraudulently, willfully…
1Per curiam
On a verdict finding the plaintiff in error guilty on the first and second counts of the indictment he was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of two years on each- of the counts; the judgment, however, containing the provision that “the sentences on the first and second count to run concurrently.”
[ 1 ] The second count sufficiently charged that four named persons, one of them being the plaintiff in error, conspired to commit the offense denounced by Bankr. Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, § 29b, 30 Stat. 554 (Comp. St. 1913, § 9613), against one who knowingly and fraudulently conceals while a…
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