Singleton v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• prose- cution for possession of money knowing it was stolen from the mail was not barred by prior acquittal on charge of stealing the same money from the mail: “He might well be innocent of the theft, and guilty of the criminal possession.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cain v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1927-05-06· cited 27×
• Steigleder v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1928-04-16· cited 6×
• United States v. Sharpe
  E.D. Kentucky· 1945-06-20· cited 5×
• United States v. Timothy Buchanan
  Eleventh Circuit· 2025-08-12

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Moorehead v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1921-01-29· cited 15×