Legal Opinion
Poffenbarger v. Aderhold
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 25, 1933No. 7133PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant unsuccessfully sought by a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court to obtain his discharge from the Atlanta penitentiary where he is imprisoned under a sentence for taking and abstracting mail matter from mail bags. 18 USCA § 317. His contention here that, having undergone punishment for stealing the mail bags in which the mail matter was contained, he is being punished twice for the same offense, is the same in substance as was' made and rejected on a direct appeal taken by him from the judgment of conviction. Poffenbarger v. United States (C. C. A.) 20 F.(2d) 42.
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2Cases cited3 opinions
- Morgan v. DevineSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Ebeling v. MorganSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Poffenbarger v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1927
3Cited by6 opinions
- United States v. Luz Medina, Silverio Polanco, Franklin Marmolejo, Juan A. Mata, Franklin Marmolejo, Silverio Polanco and Juan A. MataCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1991
- Colson v. AderholdDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1933
- McKee v. JohnstonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1942
- Murphy Jenkins, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- O'Brien v. SquierCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1943
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