UNITED STATES v. KAPP

No. 97.

302 U.S. 214 (1937)

UNITED STATES v. KAPP ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 6, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant Attorney General McMahon, with whom Solicitor General Reed and Messrs. W.W. Barron and William C. Lewis were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. William J. Hughes, Jr., with whom Mr. William E. Leahy was on the brief, for appellees.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case comes here under the Criminal Appeals Act. 18 U.S.C. 682.

The second count of an indictment charged appellees with conspiracy to defraud the United States by furnishing false information and making false statements to the Secretary of Agriculture in order to secure benefit payments under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of May 12, 1933, c. 25, 48 Stat. 31; Criminal Code, §§ 35...

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