Legal Opinion
United States v. Scott
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 11, 1977No. 76-1438PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWIN F. HUNTER, District Judge:
Appellants were convicted and sentenced on one count of violating the five-man gambling statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1955, and all but appellant Lillian Harding were convicted on one count of conspiracy to do so in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371.1
The core of the Government’s conspiracy theory involved a numbers lottery. In simplest terms this lottery consisted of persons picking a number and wagering that theirs would be the winning number. The daily winner was determined by a pre-arranged process and generally paid odds of five or six hundred to one. In the instant case…
2Cases cited41 opinions
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- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Aguilar v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by30 opinions
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- United States v. James Harrison Barham, A/K/A Robert MyersCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- Robert Wayne Williams v. Ross Maggio, Jr., Warden and the Attorney General of the State of LouisianaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
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