MR. JUSTICE LURTON delivered the opinion of the court.
This writ of error is prosecuted by the United States from a judgment sustaining a motion to quash an indictment.
The indictment is founded upon § 5440, Revised Statutes, and charges a conspiracy to defraud the United States by illegally obtaining title to forty contiguous tracts of coal lands in the District of Alaska, aggregating six thousand and eighty-seven acres, collectively known as the Stracey...
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