Legal Opinion

United States v. Thomas Hugh Wilkinson and Broadus Vanlandingham Stewart

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided August 27, 1979No. 78-5233PublishedCited by 37 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

VANCE, Circuit Judge:

Thomas Hugh Wilkinson and Broadus Vanlandingham Stewart are Mississippi gamblers whose luck ran out. Wilkinson, Stewart, and eleven codefendants were indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts stemming from their gaming activities. In the first count of the indictment, defendants were charged with conspiring to conduct an illegal gambling business in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 and 18 U.S.C. § 1955 1 and to use interstate telephone services to facilitate their illegal bookmaking operation in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 and 18 U.S.C. § 1952(a)(3). 2 In the second…

2Cases cited24 opinions

Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
Abney v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
Berman v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
Ingram v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
United States v. Craig Warner, April Covey, Samuel L. Kranzthor, Fred W. Daniels, Jr., Friedae. Edwards, Frank Daniels and Michael A. JacobsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971

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3Cited by37 opinions

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United States v. Marvin P. Johnson, Robert A. Wilkins, Duane Quamina, Patricia Gordon, Mark Francis JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
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