Legal Opinion
Jerome v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 1, 1943No. 325PublishedCited by 294 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
Sec. 2 (a) of the Bank Robbery Act (48 Stat. 783, 50 Stat. 749, 12 U. S. C. § 588b) provides in part that “whoever shall enter or attempt to enter any bank, 1 or any building used in whole or in part as a bank, with intent to commit in such bank or building, or part thereof, so used, any felony or larceny, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or impris oned not more than twenty years, or both.” Petitioner was indicted under that section for entering a national bank in Vermont with intent to utter a forged promissory note and thereby to defraud the bank. He was convicted after trial before a…
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