WEEMS v. UNITED STATES

No. 20.

217 U.S. 349 (1910)

WEEMS v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 2, 1910.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A.S. Worthington for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Fowler, with whom Mr. Henry M. Hoyt, formerly Solicitor General, was on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.1

This writ of error brings up for review the judgment of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, affirming the conviction of plaintiff in error for falsifying a "public and official document."

In the "complaint," by which the prosecution was begun, it was charged that the plaintiff in error, "a duly appointed, qualified and acting...

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