United States v. Blair-Murdock Co.

*78 On Motion to Direct Verdict.

The defendants are charged in two counts with having conspired to violate section 10 of the Criminal Code, and with having performed certain overt acts in furtherance of such conspiracy and to effect and accomplish the object thereof. It is charged generally in the first count that they conspired to hire and retain within the territory of the United States certain persons in the indictment named, in number 25, and divers other persons to the grand jury unknown, to go beyond the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, with the intent on the part of such persons to enlist and enter into the service of a foreign prince, to wit, the king o.f Great Britain and Ireland, as soldiers. The second count avers the same facts, except that it is therein stated that the intent of such persons was to enlist in the service of the king of Great Britain and Ireland as marines and seamen on board a vessel or vessels of war.

. Upon the impanelmént of the jury, as you will remember, the case took a rather unusual turn.' An agreed statement of facts was presented, with the stipulation that the court might consider such facts and the law applicable thereto, and,…