De Pratu v. United States

BOWEN, District Judge.

This is an appeal by Louis Raphael De Pratu from a conviction on all three counts of an indictment under Section 746 (a)(18), Title 8 U. S. Code [now 18 U.S. C.A. § 911], charging that he on three separate occasions “knowingly, falsely and feloniously represented himself to be a citizen of the United States without having been naturalized or admitted to citizenship and without otherwise being a citizen of the United States.”

The charges of the first and second counts are identical except as to the date of the alleged offense. Each of those counts charges that appellant on…