Legal Opinion
T. Green Duke, Doyle Willbanks, Edwin J. Waters, Curtis H. Fordham, Wesley Fiveash and Jule Rhoden v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 25, 1956No. 15882PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
Charged with, and convicted of, being a party to a widespread, far flung, and long lived conspiracy to violate the Internal Revenue laws, the defendants have appealed.
Here, urging three grounds of error, 1 appellants attacking the twenty-two page indictment, with its fifty-eight proliferations in the form of overt acts, as a besom of wrath designed to sweep them to destruction and calculated, by joining in one count offenses and defendants having no reasonable connection with each other, to deprive the hapless defendants so joined of a fair trial, assail the rulings of…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- United States v. FalconeSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Sutton v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1946
- Norris v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1946
- Hopper v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1943
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Carl Roberts and Barbara Bookout v. United States of America, John Cocco v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- United States v. Robert Conroy, Raymond Dahl, Frederick Jacobs and Walter K. Schubert, United States of America v. Leonard A. Walker, A/K/A "Silver"Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- Howard A. Blachly and Robert L. McMillen v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- Wyman Hulan Parr v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1958
- United States v. Mitchell Miller, Susan McDuffie Weeks, and John Henry McDuffieCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
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