Legal Opinion

May v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided September 4, 1916No. 4559PublishedCited by 32 opinions

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri; John C. Pollock, Judge. Joseph May and another were convicted of violating Act of Congress August 2, 1886, c. 840, 24 Stat. 209, relating to sale and manufacture of oleomargarine, and Joseph May, the named defendant, brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

CARLAND, Circuit Judge.

Joseph May with one Will Brown was tried, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary upon two in-*497dictmeuts consolidated for the purpose of trial, for violating the provisions of an act of Congress, approved August 2, 1886, relating to the sale and manufacture of oleomargarine. He seeks a reversal of the judgment for error committed by the trial court in overruling his motion to quash the indictments.

[1-5] We thus limit the assignments of error for the reason that the alleged error of the court in ruling on the motion in arrest is abandoned in the brief, and there was…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Agnew v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  2. Carter v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
  3. United States v. GaleSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  4. McDowell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
  5. Latham v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1915

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3Cited by32 opinions

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  2. In Re Grand Jury Subpoena of Alphonse PersicoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1975
  3. United States v. PrueittCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1976
  4. Charles L. Wall and Howard L. Lund v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1967
  5. United States v. GoldmanDistrict Court, D. Connecticut · 1928

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