Legal Opinion
Morris v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 11, 1940No. 9092PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MIZE, District Judge.
The appellants, T. L. Morris, L. Hugh Morris, M. N. Morris, Z. B. Freeman, and J. L. F. Beasley, were indicted along with others in the Western District of Louisiana by an indictment containing eleven counts charging them with using the mails to defraud. The defendants filed a demurrer to this indictment challenging its sufficiency and their chief grounds were that the indictment was duplicitous in that it attempted to charge two schemes to defraud in one count; that the allegations of the indictment were repugnant; that it contained prejudicial language; that it was…
2Cases cited47 opinions
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3Cited by9 opinions
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