Legal Opinion

Roberts v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided November 13, 1945No. 11244PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was charged in the first five counts with the embezzlement of five different sums of money and in the sixth count with making a false entry in the books of the Bank of Cedartown, Georgia, of which he was cashier. Convicted on all six counts, he was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and one day on each of Counts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, and to a period of eighteen months on Count 5 — rail sentences to run concurrently, so that the total time of his six sentences was eighteen months.

Since the sentence on Count 5 is longer than the sentence on any other count, but…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Hargrove v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1944

3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Bell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1951
  2. Fred I. Putnam and James A. Overman v. Harry C. Lower, John Kadlec, George S. Herning, Edgar L. Peecher, William E. Barquist and Norman L. BunkerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1956
  3. Rainey v. Davenport (In Re Davenport)United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Texas · 2006
  4. United States v. W. Borden StricklandCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
  5. United States v. Langston B. PowellCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1969

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