Abbate et al. v. United States

No. 534. Abbate et al. v. United States. Charles A. Bellows for petitioners. Solicitor General Rankin, Acting Assistant Attorney General McLean, Beatrice Rosenberg and Julia P. Cooper for the United States. [MAJORITY] Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted limited to question 2 presented by the petition for the writ which reads as follows: “Whether the petitioners were twice placed in jeopardy in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, where the evidence shows that they had been previously convicted in the Courts of the State of Illinois of the crime of conspiracy to destroy the property of the Southern Bell Telephone Company, upon the same facts as were presented in the Courts of the United States, and upon which they were convicted of conspiracy to destroy a communications line operated or controlled by the United States.”