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· 2/16/1971

United States v. Walter B. Spears

Citations

  • 449 F.2d 946
  • 145 U.S. App. D.C. 284
  • 1971 U.S. App. LEXIS 11849

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • possession in robbery statute does “not depend on the niceties of property law,” and means “nothing more than custody or control”
  • “The Revised Statutes were not generally intended to work a change in existing law.”

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Judges: Robinson, MacKinnon, Wilkey

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