Legal Opinion

Vickers v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided September 30, 1946No. 13122PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

By an indictment in four counts, Jack D. Vickers, Dorthy Lee Chandler, and Philip Brockwell were charged with four offenses. The first count was based upon 18 U.S.C.A. § 88, which makes it a crime to conspire to commit an offense against the United States if any act is done to effect the object of the conspiracy. This count, in effect, charged the defendants with having conspired to devise a scheme to defraud and to use the mails in the execution of the scheme, and with having mailed three letters to effect the object of the conspiracy. In the second count the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Pinkerton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  2. Hewitt v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1940
  3. Brady v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1928
  4. Bowen v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1946
  5. Levin v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1925

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Ladner v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
  2. John B. Sanders, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
  3. Banks v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1954
  4. Brown v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1948
  5. United States v. StironeDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1963

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