BUTLER v. UNITED STATES

No. 8338.

138 F.2d 977 (1943)

BUTLER et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

November 30, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George L. Vaughn, of St. Louis, Mo., and Morris B. Chapman, of East St. Louis, Ill., for appellants.

Ray M. Foreman, of Danville, Ill., and Ernest R. McHale, Asst. U. S. Atty., of E. St. Louis, Ill., for appellee.

Before SPARKS, KERNER, and MINTON, Circuit Judges.


KERNER, Circuit Judge.

Defendants, General Lee Butler and David D. Erwin, appeal from a judgment of conviction entered by the court after a trial without a jury under an indictment in two counts. The first count charged them and the Pacific Movement of the Eastern World, Inc., and John Doe, a Japanese, with violating Section 34, Title 50 U.S.C.A., in that, the United States being at war, the defendants entered into a conspiracy to violate Section 33, Title 50 of the...

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