Henry

The plaintiffs in error were convicted under an indictment charging them with a conspiracy to defraud the United States, in violation of section 37 of the Federal Penal Code (Comp. St. § 10201). They contend that the indictment is insufficient to charge an offense against the laws of the United States. It charges a conspiracy to procure the execution of fraudulent bail bonds for persons under arrest charged with violation of penal laws of the United States, in that they conspired to procure certain named persons to' join as sureties in the execution of bail bonds to obtain release from custody and confinement of such persons so charged, and alleges that one Etta Schoonover was the owner of no property, except an equity of redemption in a certain described lot in Los Angeles, which said equity was at no time of a greater value than $1,000; that it was a part of the conspiracy to procure her to become a surety on bail bonds upon which her liability should greatly exceed the value of the property owned by her, and that defendants should cause each of said hail bonds to be approved by the United States commissioner for the Southern district of California at Los Angeles, and filed with…