Legal Opinion

Dowdy v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided January 13, 1931No. 3028, 3038PublishedCited by 37 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ERNEST F. COCHRAN, District Judge.

The appellants (hereinafter styled the defendants) were convicted under an indictment charging them with conspiracy, under section 37, Criminal Code (U. S. Code, title 18, § 88 [18 USCA § 88]), to violate the prohibition law in a number of particulars. They have appealed separately, but their appeals were heard together in this court, and as some of the grounds of appeal are common, they will be considered together.

The record presents a mass of testimony, and there are fifteen assignments of error in the Dowdy ease, and thirty-two in the Funk case. It would…

2Cases cited37 opinions

  1. Hyde v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
  2. Ex Parte BainSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  3. Logan v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  4. Ford v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  5. Frohwerk v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1919

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3Cited by37 opinions

  1. Troutman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1938
  2. United States v. ShermanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1948
  3. Affronti v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1944
  4. Mellor v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1947
  5. I. C. Turner and E. v. Turner v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1955

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