Legal Opinion
Kobey v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 30, 1953No. 13257_1PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEMMON, District Judge.
“Hair-raising” and “horrendous” are the adjectives used by two of the appellants to denounce the sentences that they are here seeking to overturn.
All four appellants are admitted lawbreakers. Yet now they are loudly invoking a “concept of ethics, social natural justice and fair play” — a concept in which the record shows that they themselves have been conspicuously lacking.
The appellants were bookmakers. Each was convicted on one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and on eighteen counts of violations of the income and excise tax laws.
All four appellants…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Pinkerton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Townsend v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Palmer v. HoffmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Nye & Nissen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
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3Cited by31 opinions
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- Meyer Harris Cohen, AKA Michael 'Mickey' Cohen v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1962
- Earl Edward Gandy v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- United States v. Hyman Harvey Klein, Maurice Haas, and Morris O. AlprinCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1957
- Las Vegas Merchant Plumbers Ass'n v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1954
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