Legal Opinion

H. M. (Mike) Myrick and Vernon Evans Bergman, A/K/A Soll Evans, Sol Evans and Sonny Evans v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided May 26, 1964No. 19950_1PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HOOPER, District Judge.

The appellants Vernon Evans Bergman (also known as Soil Evans, Sol Evans and Sonny Evans) and Henry Madison Myrick (also known as Mike Myrick and Mike Mayer) were both found guilty under Counts One and Two, and Bergman was found guilty under Court Four, of the indictment returned against him.

Count One, based on 15 U.S.C. § 77q(a) charged a scheme to defraud various persons in the offer and sale of capital stock of Legal Security Life Insurance Company, capital stock of American Rare Metals Corporation, and of Motels Unlimited, Inc.

Count Two was based on 18 U.S.C. §…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. New Amsterdam Cas. Co. v. W. D. Felder & Co., IncCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1954
  2. John G. Ahlstedt v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
  3. Charles Oliver Williamson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960

3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Doris R. Edwards, Etc., Cross-Appellant v. Sears, Roebuck and Company, Cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
  2. United States v. Thomas E. JoyceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1974
  3. United States v. Demetrius Cyrus Georgalis, A/K/A Cy GeorgesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
  4. Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1980
  5. German v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1987

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