Supreme Court of the United States, 1941

Sherwin v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided February 10, 1941

312 U.S. 654; 61 S. Ct. 618 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Messrs. Earl C. Demoss and Charles M. Trammell, Jr. for petitioners. Solicitor General Biddle, Assistant Attorney General Rogge, and Messrs. William W. Barron, J. Albert Woll, and William J. Connor for the United States.

Cases that cite this one

3 later published cases cite this decision.

Gaunt v. United States (1st Cir. 1951)
Cramer v. United States (Supreme Court of the United States 1945)
Sheridan v. United States (9th Cir. 1941)

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Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam:

On the Government’s confession of error, its motion to reverse is granted. The judgments are reversed, and the causes are remanded to the Circuit Court of Appeals with *655directions to consider the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdicts, and petitio'ners’ assignment of error with respect to the argument of the Assistant United States Attorney without regard to any technical deficiency in its phraseology.

Messrs. Earl C. Demoss and Charles M. Trammell, Jr. for petitioners. Solicitor General Biddle, Assistant Attorney General Rogge, and Messrs. William W. Barron, J. Albert Woll, and William J. Connor for the United States.

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