UNITED STATES v. WINGERT

No. 4867.

55 F.2d 960 (1932)

UNITED STATES v. WINGERT.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

February 6, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Freeman, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Edward W. Wells, U. S. Atty., both of Philadelphia, Pa.

Francis B. Biddle, of Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.

Before DICKINSON and KIRKPATRICK, District Judges.


DICKINSON, District Judge.

The motive and purpose of this proceeding calls for a rather lengthy preamble.

Those accused of crime have two dearly bought rights now confirmed to them by the practice of a quarter of a millenium. One is the right to a fair trial, and the other to the equal and even more valuable right of protection from arrest except on probable cause and from the ignominy, loss of time, and expense following unfounded accusations. The latter...

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