Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

UNITED STATES v. FREEMAN, 211 U.S. 525 (1909)

211 U.S. 525

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1909-01-04
Topic
general

UNITED STATES v. FREEMAN, 211 U.S. 525 (1909) UNITED STATES v. FREEMAN. ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OFCOLORADO. No. 288.

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UNITED STATESv. FREEMAN,211 U.S. 525(1909)
UNITED STATESv. FREEMAN.
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF
COLORADO.
No. 288.
Argued December 16, 17, 1908.
Decided January 4, 1909.
Decided on the authority ofUnited Statesv.Biggs, ante, p. 507.
THE facts are stated in the opinion.
The Attorney GeneralandThe Solicitor General, with whomMr. Edwin W. Lawrence, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief for the United States.1Mr. Charles J. HughesandMr. Clyde C. Dawsonfor defendants in error.1
MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.
In this case the court below quashed an indictment, and a writ of error direct from this court is prosecuted on behalf of the United States, upon the theory by which it prosecuted the writ in the case ofUnited Statesv.Biggs et al., No. 289, just decided. The case presented by the record, omitting references to irrelevant distinctions in the form of the pleadings, is like that in theBiggs case, and is controlled and disposed of by the opinion just announced therein.Affirmed.Page 526
  1. Page 525 For abstracts of arguments seeante, p. 507. ↩