Case ID: alaska-fed_2/html/0744-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "GILBERT, Circuit Judge", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

151 F. 766
    CHRISTENSEN v. UNITED STATES.
    No. 1,354.
    Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth. Circuit.
    Feb. 18, 1907.
    
      W. H. Hutton and James W. Bell, for plaintiff in error.
    Before GILBERT and ROSS, Circuit Judges, and WOLYERTON, District Judge.
   GILBERT, Circuit Judge

(after stating the case as above).

The indictment in this case falls under the third subdivision of section 112. It does not charge that the plaintiff in error carried, at the time of the alleged riot, any species of dangerous weapon, or that he was disguised, or that he encouraged or solicited other persons to acts of force or violence. Under the indictment the trial court was powerless to inflict any greater punishment than imprisonment for one year, as prescribed in the third subdivision of the section. The plaintiff in error, having served more than one year of the term for which he was imprisoned, is entitled to his discharge.

The judgment Is reversed, and it is ordered that the plaintiff in error be discharged from custody.