UNITED STATES v. BIGGS

No. 289.

211 U.S. 507 (1909)

UNITED STATES v. BIGGS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 4, 1909.


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.

Mr. Charles J. Hughes and Mr. Clyde C. Dawson for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

It is adequate to an understanding of the questions which are here necessary to be decided in general terms to say that the indictment against the defendants in error charged them with conspiracy in violation of the second clause of § 5440, Rev. Stat., which makes it criminal to conspire to defraud the United States "in any manner or for any purpose." The means by...

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