Legal Opinion

Cook v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided September 17, 1926No. 7348PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SYMES, District Judge.

The plaintiff in error, William Cook, and one Jasper Cox, were indicted for conspiring together, and with one C. B. Aubrey, to violate the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. § 10138j4 et seq.).

The indictment charged that the defendants Cox and Cook, being a justice of the peace and constable, respectively, in and for Creek county, Okl., agreed as such, on or about April 15,1925, that Aubrey should and would be permitted to set up a still and sell and transport whisky, and would be protected by them from arrest or prosecution, in consideration of the payment by said…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Rudd v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1909
  2. Weare v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1924
  3. Weiderman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1926
  4. Lewis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1926
  5. Grayson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1921

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. George Dewey Stoneking v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1956
  2. Cook v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1927
  3. Spalitto v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1930
  4. Tinsley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1930
  5. Leslie v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1930

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