Legal Opinion

Corbin v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided April 7, 1920No. 3421PublishedCited by 8 opinions

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia; Beverly D. Evans, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Neal Corbin and Will Miller. Judgment of conviction, and defendants bring error.

1Opinion of the Court

HUTCHESON, District Judge.

This writ of error is prosecuted from a verdict and judgment against the defendants.

Six errors are assigned; the first two consisting of a general assault on behalf of both defendants on the indictment, and the last-four seeking to review the verdict as to Will Miller for want and for insufficiency of the evidence.

The errors assigned to the indictment are: (1) That the court erred in refusing to require an election on the part of the government. (2) *660To the action of the court in overruling a motion to quash, because the indictment joined felonies and misdemeanors.

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2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Pointer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  2. Dolan v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1904
  3. Rooney v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1913
  4. Phillips v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1920

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. United States v. LotschCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1939
  2. Dobbins v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1946
  3. Clifton v. United StatesDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1923
  4. Randall v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1945
  5. United States v. Domingo Torres RiveraCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1965

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