Legal Opinion

Sonnenberg v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided April 5, 1920No. 3348PublishedCited by 25 opinions

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of California; Oscar A. Trip-pet, Judge. E. J. Sonnenberg was convicted of an offense, and be brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

[1] As stated in the brief of the present attorneys for the plaintiff in error, there was in the court below no demurrer to the indictment; no motion to quash it, or bill of particulars, demanded; no motion for a new trial or in arrest of judgment; no specific exception to any of the instructions given by the court to the jury; and only a general exception taken to the refusal of the requested instructions. Notwithstanding all that, if, as contended on behalf of the plaintiff in error, the indictment fails to state facts sufficient to constitute the crime charged, the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Shilter v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1919

3Cited by25 opinions

  1. McGrath v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1921
  2. Goldstein v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1934
  3. United States v. McDonaldDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 1923
  4. United States v. PelleyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1942
  5. United States v. James H. Smith, Sr.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1956

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