Legal Opinion
Charles Basil Pekar v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 4, 1963No. 19676PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from the conviction and sentence of appellant on six counts of an indictment charging him with being in possession of personal effects which he knew had been stolen after having been in possession, as baggage, of a common carrier for interstate transportation in violation of Section 659 of Title 18 U.S.C. Sentences aggregating fifteen years were imposed on the appellant.
The principal ground urged by appellant for the reversal of his conviction was the failure of the trial court to exclude from evidence the articles of personal belongings that were…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Clyde Mattox v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Judd v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951
- Higgins v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1954
- Robert Edgar Channel v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1960
- Ray v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1936
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3Cited by62 opinions
- United States v. Ronald Tobin, Clifford Roger Ackerson, United States of America v. Ronald TobinCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1991
- Parrish v. Civil Service CommissionCalifornia Supreme Court · 1967
- William L. Maxwell v. Dan D. Stephens, Superintendent of Arkansas State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
- Ramona Cipres and Juan Montes Deoca v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1965
- Allan L. Robbins, Warden, Maine State Prison v. Kenneth MacKenzieCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1966
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