Legal Opinion
Weisman v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 10, 1921No. 2841PublishedCited by 8 opinions
In Error to the District Court, of the United States for the Eastern District of Illinois. Meyer Weisman and others were convicted of injuring a telegraph line operated by the United States and used as an aid to transportation of war material and troops, and defendant Weisman brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Meyer Weisman was indicted, along with others, and convicted on one count of an indictment charging him with having “willfully and feloniously” injured—
“a certain telegraph line then and there being, which said telegraph line was then and there the property of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, a corporation, and was then and there in the possession and under the control of and operated by the United States, and which said telegraph line was then and there being used in connection with and as an aid to the transportation of *945war material and croops of…
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