United States v. Cummins

I disagree with the holding on the policy argument by trial counsel and with the refusal to remand this case to the board of review on sentence. Also, I have given careful consideration to the authorities cited on the postdated check issue. That holding appears so foreign to well-established principles of law that I must dissent. The issue, as granted by the Court, was phrased as follows:

“Whether evidence that the check in Specification 1 of Charge I was post dated is sufficient to support the finding of guilty.”

This fairly raises the question of sufficiency of the evidence. I interpret the…