Simpson v. United States
| Decision Date | 14 October 1957 |
| Docket Number | No. 131,131 |
| Citation | 2 L.Ed.2d 22,78 S.Ct. 14,355 U.S. 7 |
| Parties | Herbert SIMPSON, Donald M. Wollam, and John Rogers MacKenzie, petitioners, v. UNITED STATES of America |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Mr. Reuben G. Lenske, for petitioners.
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 the confession of error by the Solicitor General, the judgments of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit are reversed. Hoffman v. United States, 341 U.S. 479, 71 S.Ct. 814, 95 L.Ed. 1118.
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