Legal Opinion
United States v. Eddie C. Allen, Rosa Lee White and Andrew Preston Perkins
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 5, 1979No. 77-5786PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:
The defendants were convicted at a jury trial on a one count indictment for operating a numbers lottery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1955. This statute prohibits participation in a gambling business which violates state law. Not every gambling business illegal under state law is prohibited by this statute, however, because the statute reaches only those that include five or more persons and do so for more than thirty days or gross $2,000 or more in a single day. 1
All the defendants contend that the government did not prove section 1955’s jurisdictional requirement of…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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- Aguilar v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Brown v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by43 opinions
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- United States v. Gregory James Freeman and David Lyle Boese, A/K/A Dennis Phillip Stevens and David SterlingCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
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