Legal Opinion
Merle Emery Wood v. United States of America, Richard Beach Gurney v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 27, 1960No. 16343, 16344PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
' SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
Merle Emery Wood and Richard Beach Gurney were two of nine defendants named in a twenty-three count indictment returned October 28, 1958, charging twenty-three separate violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1341, which makes it a crime to use the mails in execution of a scheme to defraud. Wood, Gurney, and one other defendant (Damm) stood trial. They weye tried together, and each was found guilty by the jury, Wood upon twelve counts of the indictment, and Gurney upon eleven. The court sentenced Wood on July 1, 1959, to eighteen months imprisonment under each of the twelve counts…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Dunn v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Myres v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1949
- Goldstein v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1933
- Cochran v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1930
- Holmes v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1943
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3Cited by32 opinions
- United States v. CrosbyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1961
- United States v. Lawrence Daniel Caldwell, A/K/A Thomas E. Morgan, (Two Cases). United States of America v. Eros A. Timm, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1976
- People v. VarnumCalifornia Supreme Court · 1967
- Abraham L. Koolish, David F. Koolish and John B. Carnell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
- United States v. J. Norman JonesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1970
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