UNITED STATES v. MEYER

No. 17371.

266 F.2d 747 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Baron deHirsch MEYER, Leonard L. Abess, W. George Kennedy and Sam R. Becker, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 20, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Guilmartin, U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., for appellant.

Chester Bedell, Jacksonville, Fla., George F. Gilleland, W. Sanders Gramling, W. G. Ward, William C. Steel, J Edward Worton, William Manker, Miami, Fla., for appellees. Ward & Ward, Miami, Fla., Bedell & Bedell, Jacksonville, Fla., Scott, McCarthy, Preston, Steel & Gilleland, Worton & Manker, Miami, Fla., of counsel.

Before RIVES, TUTTLE and JONES, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment sustaining a motion to dismiss an indictment of twenty-one counts, which occupy forty-seven pages of the printed record.

Count one of the indictment is drawn under the general conspiracy statute, Title 18 United States Code § 371, proscribing a conspiracy "either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose....

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