Legal Opinion
William Dennis Riggs v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 14, 1960No. 17449PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Chief Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment of conviction followed by a sentence of imprisonment for four years. The seven-count indictment charged the defendant with conspiracy and with substantive offenses of uttering counterfeit $20.00 Fed eral Reserve Notes 1 2and of dealing in such counterfeit obligations. 2
Proof of the substantive counts and of the overt acts charged in the conspiracy count depended upon the testimony of two brothers, Robert Lee Phelps and Charles Jimmy Phelps. Charles Jimmy Phelps testified that in March, 1957, he sold to the defendant a truck for the assumption…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- United States v. FalconeSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Marsh v. Illinois Cent. R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1949
- William Dennis Riggs v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- Campbell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1949
- United States v. Empire Packing Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1949
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Ernest Benjamin Smith v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Dept. Of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- United States v. Edwin Wallace PennixCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- Smith v. EstelleDistrict Court, N.D. Texas · 1977
- Robert E. Morgan v. United States of America, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1967
- Howard Wallace Barbee and Bobby Joe Manziel v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
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