Legal Opinion
Sanford v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 31, 1938No. 7004PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant was jointly indicted with one Edna Weaver for manslaughter committed in the District of Columbia. She was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of from one to three years. Edna Weaver was found not guilty by direction of the court.
The appeal challenges the judgment of conviction, first, for failure of the prosecution to establish the corpus delicti; second, for error in the admission of evidence of “prior charges in the Police Court” against appellant; third, for error in directing a verdict in favor of appellant’s co-defendant, Edna Weaver, without specially…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Perovich v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Glover v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1906
- Bostic v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1937
- Murray v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1923
- Ray v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Morton v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
- Thomas v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1941
- Estelle Jordan v. Lawrence MedleyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1983
- Ercoli v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1942
- Sanitary Milk Producers v. Bergjans Farm Dairy, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1966
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