Legal Opinion

Lanier v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided November 29, 1921No. 3709PublishedCited by 9 opinions

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas; Robert T. Ervin, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Roy Lanier. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

KING, Circuit Judge.

Roy Lanier, with four others, was indicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas for conspiring to steal, and stealing, on January 19, 1920, in Wichita county, Tex., a quantity of iron well pipe or casing moving in interstate commgrce in a car marked “Big Four, No. 35405.” The indictment contained three counts. The first charged a conspiracy to steal, and alleged the stealing as the overt act. The second count charged the stealing of said pipe from said car. The third count charged that the said pipe was stolen by persons unknown; that the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Coe v. ErrolSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
  2. Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Sabine Tram Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1913
  3. Troxell v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
  4. Railroad Commission of Ohio v. Worthington, Receiver of Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad CompanySupreme Court of the United States · 1912
  5. Gilmore v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1920

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Remus v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1923
  2. Milton v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1940
  3. Robilio v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1923
  4. Pueblo v. Díaz RíosSupreme Court of Puerto Rico · 1949
  5. Gay v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1925

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