Legal Opinion

Ammerman v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided August 23, 1920No. 5507PublishedCited by 6 opinions

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma; John H. Cottcral, Judge. R. U. Ammerman and others were convicted of conspiracy to carry intoxicating liquor from the state of Missouri into that part of Oklahoma which had been Indian Territory, and they bring error.

1Opinion of the Court

JOHNSON, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in error were convicted in the court below on an indictment charging them, under section 37 of the Penal Code (Comp. St. § 10201), with a conspiracy to violate the Act of March 1, 1895, § 8, 28 Statutes at Targe, 697 (Comp. St. § 4136b), by introducing and carrying from without the state of Oklahoma — to-wit, from the city of Joplin, in the state of Missouri, into that part of Oklahoma which prior to its admission'as a state was Indian Territory — intoxicating liquors, namely, whisky, etc. The indictment alleges numerous overt acts. Plaintiffs in error, whom…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Rosen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
  2. Boyd v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  3. Joplin Mercantile Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
  4. Ex Parte Webb.Supreme Court of the United States · 1912
  5. Dick v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1908

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3Cited by6 opinions

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  3. Gibson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1929
  4. Sharp v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1926
  5. Gibson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1929

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