Legal Opinion

United States v. Sacks

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided November 7, 1921No. 48PublishedCited by 32 opinions

ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. Writ of error under the Criminal Appeals Act, to review a judgment quashing an indictment. See post, 42.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna

This case presents for consideration an indictment in three counts for the violation, respectively, of §§ 148 and 151 of the Criminal Code of the United States, as dependent upon the construction of an act of Congress to which we shall refer. '

The first two counts charge that Sacks did, “ with intent to defraud, alter an obligation of the United .States, to wit, a war savings certificate of the United States of the series of 1918, ... in that [he] did . . . tear from the face of said war savings certificate two war savings certificate stamps of the United States of the series of 1918, thereto…

2Cited by32 opinions

  1. Free v. BlandSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  2. Sinift v. SiniftSupreme Court of Iowa · 1939
  3. Harvey v. RackliffeSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1945
  4. In re the Estate of DeyoNew York Surrogate's Court · 1943
  5. Ervin v. . Conn and Bank v. . FredericksonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1945

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