Legal Opinion
Costner v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 18, 1943No. 5119PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOPER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal was taken from an order of the District Court passed on April 7, 1943 whereby the court denied appellant’s motion to vacate a sentence of imprisonment imposed on April 2, 1934, and to enter a.new judgment. This procedure,- designed to test the validity of the sentence, was taken in accordance with the decision in Holiday v. Johnston, 313 U.S. 342, 61 S.Ct. 1015, 85 L.Ed. 1392.
The appellant and others were indicted in 1934 under an indictment of twelve counts charging various offenses in connection with a robbery of the mail. We are concerned only with counts 1…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Albrecht v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Morgan v. DevineSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Holiday v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Hewitt v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1940
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3Cited by28 opinions
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- United States v. Robert L. Donovan, Albert Andrews and Hyman CohenCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1957
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