Legal Opinion
Ford v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 29, 1953No. 14159PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STRUM, Circuit Judge.
Appealing from a conviction of perjury, appellants here assert that the trial court erred in overruling their motion for new trial, one ground of which was that it was discovered after verdict that one of the jurors who sat in the case had been twice previously convicted of felony and was therefore disqualified, his civil rights not having been restored. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1861; sections 40.01 and 40.07, Fla.Stat.Ann.
On voir dire examination, the juror in question was asked by the trial judge, along with the other jurors, whether he had ever been prosecuted for any offense…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Frazier v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Kohl v. LehlbackSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Queenan v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Raub v. CarpenterSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Spivey v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1940
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3Cited by38 opinions
- Marshall Dwayne Hughes v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2001
- United States v. Jermaine Boney, United States of America v. Donald A. HollomanCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1992
- United States v. BishopCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2001
- United States v. Lloyd E. HumphreysCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1993
- United States v. Edward Wray Crockett, Jr., David Keen Crockett, and Jewell L. FutchCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
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