NILVA v. UNITED STATES

No. 15224.

227 F.2d 74 (1955)

Allen I. NILVA, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 21, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Graff, St. Paul, Minn. (Hoffman, Donahue & Graff, St. Paul, Minn. on the brief), for appellant.

Oliver Dibble, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Warren Olney III, Asst. Atty. Gen., and William R. Mills, Asst. U. S. Atty., Bismarck, N. D., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, COLLET and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing Denied December 21, 1955. See 228 F.2d 134.

COLLET, Circuit Judge.

Allen I. Nilva was convicted of criminal contempt and appeals.

In October, 1952, Elmo T. Christianson, Herman Paster and Nilva were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiracy to violate the Johnson Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1172, prohibiting the interstate transportation of gambling devices. That case will be referred to as the Christianson...

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