Legal Opinion
Luke v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 27, 1936No. 8027PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
Appellant was charged in thirteen counts with having devised and having used the United States mails to execute, and attempt to execute, a scheme and artifice to defraud. The scheme charged was inducing persons to become subscribers to the stock of, and to become depositors in, the Citizens Building & Loan Association of Thomasville, Ga., of which appellant was president, upon representations which he knew to be false, and for the purpose of obtaining money to appropriate to his own use. Convicted on ten counts, and sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary, he…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Silkworth v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1926
- Phillips v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1912
- Shea v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1918
- Beck v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1929
- Browne v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1923
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Coplin v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1937
- Bratcher v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1945
- Hamilton v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1944
- United States v. BuchalterCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1937
- Helwig v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1947
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