Legal Opinion
Blackwood v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 26, 1943No. 12501PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order denying a motion, filed in 1942, to . vacate or correct a twenty-five-year sentence imposed upon appellant-after a trial and con-, viction by a jury in 1931.
The motion alleges, as its general basis* that “the indictment charges no offense against any statute of the United States,' which authorizes’ a penalty in excess of ten years.” Appellant has been committed-to a federal penitentiary since his sentence in 1931, and he contends that he has thus served the full time for which' he legally could have been sentenced under the indictment,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Durland v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Wiborg v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Connors v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Rowan v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1922
- Keys v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1942
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Hood v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1946
- United States v. BentCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1949
- Aaron Walter Burgett v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1956
- Bugg v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1944
- United States v. Sehon ChinnDistrict Court, S.D. West Virginia · 1946
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