Legal Opinion

Hardy v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided March 1, 1919No. 3262PublishedCited by 5 opinions

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas; Edward R. Meek, Judge. D. M. Hardy and others, were convicted of conspiracy to make illegal shipments of liquor, and bring error.

1Opinion of the Court

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ of error sued out by D. M. Hardy, J. R. Young, and J. O. Elliott to obtain a review of a judgment convicting them on each of the 15 counts of an indictment against them and Eugene Flowers, alias J. B. Flowers.

Each count of the indictment charged a conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, that one or more of the alleged conspirators did a stated act or acts to effect the object of the conspiracy, and that the alleged conspiracy was entered into on or about the 1st day of July, 1917, and continued to the 15th day of April, 1918. The…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Jones v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1910

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Susnjar v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1928
  2. United States v. BergerCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1934
  3. Wilkirson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1927
  4. Jorman v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1928
  5. United States v. SimonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1941

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