Stillman v. United States

BONE, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, who were partners in a wholesale meat business, appeal from a judgment of conviction upon the verdict of a jury under an indictment (filed March 11, 1946) containing 50 counts, the first of which charged a conspiracy 1 to violate the

Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 901 et seq. (hereafter referred to as the Act). To the conspiracy count was appended a long list of claimed overt acts alleged as substantive offenses committed in furtherance and to effectuate the purposes and objects of the conspiracy. This count also referred to certain…