Legal Opinion
United States v. Compagna
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 20, 1944No. 103PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
Compagna and six others have appealed from convictions for violation of subdivision (d) of § 420a, Title 18 U.S.C.A.: a conspiracy to extort money from producers and exhibitors of moving pictures during the years 1935 to 1940. They rely upon some twenty assignments of error, of which the first and the most important is that there was not enough evidence to support the verdict. Since the case against Kaufman is somewhat different from that against the rest, we will reserve consideration of his appeal until we have disposed of those of the others. The only other alleged…
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