[DOWNLOAD] "Brown v. United States." by United States Court Of Appeals Sixth Circuit ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Brown v. United States.
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals Sixth Circuit
- Release Date : January 18, 1953
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court sentencing the appellant in accordance with a jury verdict finding him guilty of violating 18 U.S.C.Section 371, the conspiracy statute. The trial court dismissed eight substantive counts against the appellant included in an information filed against him and his codefendant, Joe Colagross, deputy sheriff of Maury County, Tennessee. As to appellant, therefore, the case was tried upon Count 1 of the information, which charged him with conspiring with his codefendant Colagross to violate 18 U.S.C.Section 242, by depriving certain named inhabitants of the State of Tennessee and of the United States and other inhabitants unknown to the District Attorney, of the rights, privileges and immunities secured to them under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The information in substance charged that the defendants deprived the persons named of "The right and privilege not to be deprived of liberty without due process of law; the right and privilege to be tried by due process of law for an alleged offense under the laws of the State, and if found guilty to be sentenced and punished in accordance with the laws of the State." The information averred that it was the willful plan and purpose of the conspiracy that codefendant Colagross would, while acting as a deputy sheriff and under color of law "pursuant to an arrangement with and at the request of defendant Paul Brown, willfully and without legal cause arrest and take into custody" each of the persons named, and place him in jail without giving him a hearing before a magistrate or other constituted officer where each person would be imprisoned and not released until he paid a sum of money allegedly due and owing to the defendant Paul Brown. It was charged that the defendants well knew that each of the arrests and imprisonments would be unjustified and intended illegally to extort money to pay the alleged debt to defendant Brown.