Jackson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate ·

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1. ““Defendant says that, even if the first and second counts in the indictment ‘do properly set forth a federal offense, only one sentence would properly lie thereon because both charge embezzlement of money from the Winner-Franck Estate which he is alleged to have held “as custodian,” ’ that .both counts contain the same allegations as to the date and place of the crimes alleged, and that he was alleged to be attorney for the trustee in both. “This is true, but in both counts the date of the commission of the crime is alleged to be some time between July 1, 1931, and March 13, 1933, but ‘the exact date being to the Grand Jurors unknown.’ That does not mean that the crimes set forth in the two counts were committed on the same date and on the same identical spot; or that they were the same crimes, for the amount charged in the first count to have been embezzled ‘was $48,067.74 and in the second count, $41,669.06. “Consequently, different crimes, separate and distinct, are charged in each count, and therefore a sentence on each count was legally imposed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 21 F. Supp. 229 - United States ex rel. Kutler v. Hill