Legal Opinion

Taylor v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided September 19, 1924No. 3314PublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtEvan A. Evans, Circuit Judge

(after stating the facts as above). The indictment is attacked because (a) indefinite and uncertain; and (b) of its failure under any construction of the language to charge defendants with the commission of an offense. Its asserted insufficiency in the latter respect (so far as the first four counts of the indictment are concerned) would present a more serious question, wore it not for certain decisions, which, strangely enough, escaped the attention of counsel for both sides when they were investigating this very important and equally interesting question.

These four counts charged, or at…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Pettibone v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  2. United States v. RabinowichSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
  3. Frohwerk v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
  4. Williams v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  5. United States v. GradwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1917

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3Cited by30 opinions

  1. Allen v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1924
  2. Troutman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1938
  3. Capone v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1931
  4. State v. DavidsonIdaho Supreme Court · 1957
  5. O'BRIEN v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1931

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