UNITED STATES v. SUMMERS


19 F.2d 627 (1927)

UNITED STATES v. SUMMERS.

District Court, W. D. Virginia.

May 20, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. C. Shaffer, U. S. Atty., of Roanoke, Va., and C. E. Gentry, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Charlottesville, Va.

Hutton & Hutton and H. E. Widener, all of Abingdon, Va., for defendant.


McDOWELL, District Judge.

The defendant, guardian of an infant beneficiary of the estate of a deceased World War veteran, was indicted under the statute hereinafter quoted. 43 Stat. 1312 (U. S. Code, tit. 38, § 556 [Comp. St. § 9127½ — 505]). The facts in the case are as follows:

The defendant had used for his private purposes a very considerable part of a fund of several thousand dollars which had been paid to him in his official capacity...

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