Legal Opinion

Woolley v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided May 31, 1938No. 8687PublishedCited by 60 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HEALY, Circuit Judge..Appellant was convicted of . perjury under an indictment charging the giving of false testimony in an investigation conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Orders of the trial court overruling a demurrer to the indictment and denying a motion to quash are assigned as érror. Errors are also assigned in the admission and rejection of evidence; and certain constitutional infirmities are urged as against the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U.S.C.A. § 77a et seq.

In the main, the arguments relating to the sufficiency of the indictment are too lacking in substance to…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Blair v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
  2. Caha v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  3. Glickstein v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
  4. Interstate Commerce Commission v. BairdSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
  5. Carroll v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1927

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3Cited by60 opinions

  1. Hannah v. LarcheSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
  2. Falsone v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1953
  3. McCartney v. Commission on Judicial QualificationsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1974
  4. Perkins v. Endicott Johnson CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1942
  5. Louis Weinstock v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1956

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