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Shelton v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided July 10, 1953No. 14360_1PublishedCited by 43 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Defendant was charged under section 2312, Title 18, U.S.C.A., with transporting in interstate commerce a described mo Lor vehicle, knowing the same to have been stolen. After a lengthy trial to a jury, in which, pursuant to liis insistence that he be allowed to do so, he conducted his own defense in an exceedingly capable fashion, he was found guilty.

Sentenced to serve four years and appealing in forma pauperis, he is here in propria persona, by oral argument and with a typewritten brief of more than one hundred pages carefully prepared, precisely documented to the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Gordon v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
  2. United States v. MitchellCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1943
  3. Hartzell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1934
  4. United States v. FosterDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1949
  5. Withaup v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1903

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3Cited by43 opinions

  1. People v. MattsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1959
  2. United States v. HillCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1975
  3. United States v. John Arthur DanielsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
  4. State v. GethersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1985
  5. Clifford L. Duke, Jr., Louis Glenn Ballard and Vic Buono v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1958

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