UNITED STATES v. HAMMERS

No. 314.

221 U.S. 220 (1911)

UNITED STATES v. HAMMERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 15, 1911.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Ernest Knaebel, for the United States.

Mr. L.H. Valentine, with whom Mr. Nathan Newby was on the brief, for the defendant in error.

Mr. Oscar A. Trippett, Mr. J.M. Eshleman, Mr. LeCompte Davis and Mr. William C. Prentiss filed a brief, by leave of the court, as amici curiae, in support of the position of the United States.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is here to review an order sustaining a demurrer to an indictment found against defendant in error, herein called defendant.

Omitting the repetitions and accentuations which are usually found in indictments, the following are the facts stated in the indictment in this case: On the fourteenth of August, 1907, one Granville M. Boyer made a desert land entry for certain lands under the public land...

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