Case Name: CHRISTENSEN v. UNITED STATES
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1907-02-18
Citations: 2 Alaska Fed. 744
Docket Number: No. 1,354
Parties: CHRISTENSEN v. UNITED STATES.
Judges: Before GILBERT and ROSS, Circuit Judges, and WOLYERTON, District Judge.
Reporter: Alaska Federal Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 744–746

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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 power less 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.