UNITED STATES v. FORRESTER

No. 287.

211 U.S. 399 (1908)

UNITED STATES v. FORRESTER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 14, 1908.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Attorney General and The Solicitor General, with whom Mr. Edwin W. Lawrence, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States.1

Mr. John M. Waldron, with whom Mr. G.Q. Richmond was on the brief, for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

A demurrer having been sustained to an indictment found against the present defendants in error, this writ of error was prosecuted on behalf of the United States under the authority of the act of March 2, 1907 (34 Stat. 1246).

The five persons named as defendants were accused of having at Durango, Colorado, entered into an unlawful conspiracy to defraud the United States of more than thirty-five hundred...

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