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UNITED STATES v. STORRS

No. 95.

272 U.S. 652 (1926)

47 S.Ct. 221

71 L.Ed. 460

UNITED STATES v. STORRS ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 13, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant to the Attorney General Donovan, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell and Mr. William D. Whitney, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Albert R. Barnes, with whom Messrs. Mahlon E. Wilson and Dan B. Shields were on the brief, for the defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

The defendants in error were indicted for conspiracy to violate and violation of § 215 of the Penal Code, punishing use of the mails for the purpose of executing a scheme to defraud. They pleaded in abatement that when the grand jurors were investigating the charge the official court stenographer was present and took down the evidence; that the district attorney was also present and undertook to give a summary...

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