Legal Opinion
Forte v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 6, 1936No. 6449PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.
The appellant Forte, together with three others, was convicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia of the sale and possession of lottery tickets in violation of section 863 of the District of Columbia Code 1901, as amended, 32 Stat. 535 (D.C.Code 1929, T. 6, § 151). He alone appeals.
It appears from the evidence that on November 30, 1934, about noon, one Melvin M. Kite, a police officer attached to the gambling squad, went to a lunchroom located at 1101 Fifth Street Northwest, in the city of Washington, and made a play on the so-called “numbers game”…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Wilkinson v. . GillNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
- People v. ElliottMichigan Supreme Court · 1889
- Commonwealth v. BanksSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1929
- Francis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Commonwealth v. WeightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Condor Merritt v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
- Junius S. Washington v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1968
- Shelton v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2001
- United States Fo America v. Orville J. JacksonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1970
- Ford v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1987
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