Legal Opinion
In re Film & Pictorial Representation of Dempsey-Tunney Fight
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided November 18, 1927No. 989PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIBLEY, District Judge.
A search warrant was issued by a commissioner of this court for the seizure, at the Metropolitan Theater, of certain moving picture films publicly exhibited there of the Dempsey-Tunney prize fight, on the ground that there was probable cause to believe that the films has been used as a means of committing a felony by being sent into Georgia from another state, pursuant to a conspiracy to violate United States Code, title 18, § 405 (18 USCA § 405), engaged in by one Hicks, one McCullough, and others unknown. After the films were seized, Hicks obtained in this court a…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Perlman v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Collins v. MillerSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Todd v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Atlanta Enterprises, Inc. v. CrawfordDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1927
3Cited by8 opinions
- In Re FriedCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1947
- Foley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1933
- Rose v. St. ClairDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1928
- Herter v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1929
- United States v. RoitmanDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1929
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