Legal Opinion
United States v. Reginald Cochran, William Ronald Watson, and William Robert Bland,defendants-Appellants
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 7, 1974No. 73-1820PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DYER, Circuit Judge:
A flim-flam is a confidence game designed to fleece a victim through some fraud or' trickery, in this case by a pretended sale of stolen gems at a bargain price. By a three-count indictment Reginald Cochran, Stanley Cochran (son of Reginald), Parker (an associate of the Cochrans), Bland (a Tampa police official), and Watson (a Tampa used-car lot owner) were charged with violations of 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 2314, 2 and 371. Count one charged the defendants with conspiring to transport from Georgia to Florida stolen gems for use in a flim flam and transportation of the gems and the…
2Cases cited37 opinions
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- Donnelly v. DeChristoforoSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Harrington v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Opper v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Paul John Carbo, Frank Palermo, Joseph Sica, Louis Tom Dragna, and Truman K. Gibson, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
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3Cited by59 opinions
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