Legal Opinion
United States v. Stapleton
District Court, E.D. Tennessee
Decided April 6, 1967No. Cr. A. No. 6954PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
NEESE, District Judge.
A grand jury returned an indictment on March 27, 1967, charging the defendant herein with the commission of a crime on November 11, 1967. The United States attorney for this District submitted after the arraignment of this defendant on April 3, 1967 a proposed order to correct the obvious typographical error in the indictment so as to reflect the date of the offense as having been November 11, 1966.
“* * * [A]n indictment may not be amended except by resubmission to the grand jury, unless the change is merely a matter of form. * * *” Russell v. United…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Berg v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1949
- Butler v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1952
- Thompson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1922
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3Cited by2 opinions
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- United States v. RidensDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1973