Legal Opinion

Samuels v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided February 28, 1916No. 4476PublishedCited by 38 opinions

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas; John C. Pollock, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Henry Samuels. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

TRIEBER, District Judge.

The plaintiff in error, defendant in the court below, was indicted in 11 counts for violations of section 215 of the Penal Code, and, upon a trial having been found guilty on all of the counts, prosecutes this writ of error to obtain a reversal.

There are 108 assignments of error, many of them mere repetitions. The assignments necessary to consider are: (1) The sufficiency of each of the counts in the indictment. (2) The admission of evidence offered by the government, alleged to be incompetent. (3) Rejecting certain evidence offered on behalf of the defendant. (4)…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. United States v. HessSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  2. American School of Magnetic Healing v. McAnnultySupreme Court of the United States · 1902
  3. Dealy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  4. Grimm v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
  5. Felton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1877

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3Cited by38 opinions

  1. Weiss v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1941
  2. United States v. Ronald F. CalvertCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1975
  3. State v. NunnSupreme Court of Kansas · 1989
  4. Lester E. Butler v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1963
  5. Lisansky v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1929

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