Ross v. Hudspeth

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

An indictment was returned against petitioner in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, containing four counts, charging violations of 18 U.S.C.A. § 265.

The first count charged that petitioner on July 5, 1937, with intent to defraud the United States and one Carl Watkins, unlawfully passed, uttered, published, and sold a certain falsely made, forged, and counterfeited obligation of the United States, to-wit: A counterfeited $20…