Legal Opinion

Le Fanti v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided June 14, 1919No. 2477PublishedCited by 13 opinions

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Thomas G. Haig;ht, Judge. Dominick Le Fanti was convicted of receiving stolen goods, and brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

DICKINSON, District Judge.

The following outline statement of facts presents the questions involved in this writ of error:

The defendant in the court below was a saloon keeper. Two boys had stolen a bale of silk. This they took to Le Fanti’s saloon, to be turned over to him. He was, in the slang of the underworld, the “fence.” They had before brought silk to him, for which he had afterwards paid them $120, or some such sum. When they brought the bale with which we are now concerned, they told him they had “another bale.” He warned them that he and his place was being watched, and directed them…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. United States v. Le FantiDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1919

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. United States v. Ray Nedley, Stanley Jochim, and Paul BaurhennCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1958
  2. United States v. De NormandCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1945
  3. United States v. Lawrence Thomas and Michael Angelo BalducciCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1960
  4. United States v. Domenick CasalinuovoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1965
  5. George E. Shibley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1956

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