| Show COLORADO COURT IS KNOCKED OUT washington dec 14 the suplene court of the united states toda in the main reversed the cr er dict of 0 the united states district court for the district of colorado discharging from custody a number of who were arrested on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the government by ente entering ring timber and coal lands in colorado contrary ary to ila law ahert were ere four cases in which appropriating timber lands was charged P F W keitel robert forrester charles charle E herr and george C franklin being the defendants and three coal land cased ewes in which charles H freeman edgar at biggs were ere T alexander alevander a and q d defendants theba men with a number of others ere indicted on the charges charge of false se swearing aring and conspiring to procure for corporations more of the public lands than is iq allowed by la law to on one e individual or the trial court discharged one corr company ipaty the defendants the government promptly appealed to the supreme court was announced ced by opinion and sustained the con white whit e justice indictments thus reversing s 1 racy that point on court t the e di district I 1 brict sustained that court urt hoe however verp was mas in finding that sec covering false swearing does not apply to other than pension cases the interior department Lon contended tended that as amended this statute applies to false bw earing hearing in any matter arising in the interior department justice whites white i principal decision of the series was in the case of P W keitel and others in which he discussed the right to employ an all agent to purchase coal lands for a disqualified principal he ile declared that an express provision excluding the right to do a particular act is both in form and substance a prohibition against the doing of such act and characterized as inconceivable any hypothesis that the act of a duly authorized zed agent was not the letof act of the principal the court added that it would be time to consider the foreboding that a broad construction of the law might lead to unwarranted persecution anen a case arises indicating that the decade is real and not imaginary |
