UNITED STATES v. CURTISS-WRIGHT EXPORT CORPORATION, 299
U.S. 304
(1936)
qMR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.
On January 27, 1936, an indictment was
returned in the court below, the first count of which charges that appellees,
beginning with the 29th day of May, 1934, conspired to sell in the United
States certain arms of war, namely fifteen machine guns, to Bolivia, a country
then engaged in armed conflict in the Chaco,