Legal Opinion

Blum v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided February 9, 1931No. 5796PublishedCited by 23 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HICKENLOOPER, Circuit Judge.

The defendants below, here appellants, complain that the indictment, under which they were convicted in the District Court, is duplicitous, and that that court therefore erred in refusing leave to withdraw pleas of not guilty and to file a demurrer and/or a motion to quash the indictment. We pass the question of whether the motion which was made was not addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and direct our attention immediately to the meritorious question of duplicity of the indictment.

The indictment was quite obviously intended, we think, to charge…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Wong Tai v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
  2. Ford v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  3. Frohwerk v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
  4. Remus v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1923
  5. Reynolds v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1922

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3Cited by23 opinions

  1. Ricky Wayne Short v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2006
  2. Troutman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1938
  3. William Alfred Reno v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
  4. Beauchamp v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1946
  5. Foster v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1935

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