Mounce v. United States
| Decision Date | 09 December 1957 |
| Docket Number | No. 542,542 |
| Citation | 78 S.Ct. 267,355 U.S. 180,2 L.Ed.2d 187 |
| Parties | Mervin MOUNCE, petitioner, v. UNITED STATES of America |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Mr. O. John Rogge, for petitioner.
Solicitor General Rankin, for the United States.
On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The petition for writ of certiorari is granted. Upon consideration of the entire record and confession of error by the Solicitor General the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is vacated and the case is remanded to the United States District Court for consideration in light of Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 77 S.Ct. 1304, 1 L.Ed.2d 1498.
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