UNITED STATES v. HINSON

No. 2176.

3 F.2d 200 (1925)

UNITED STATES v. HINSON et ux.

District Court, S. D. Florida.

January 13, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. M. Gober, U. S. Atty., of Tampa, Fla., and Maynard Ramsey, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Jacksonville, Fla.

A. G. Hartridge and Richard Stillman, both of Jacksonville, Fla., for defendants.


CALL, District Judge.

At common law it is probable that the plea of coverture would state a cause of abatement, on account of the unity of husband and wife; the husband being the responsible party for joint crimes committed by husband and wife. And this rule would prevail in states adopting the common law and having made no change by statute. As I understand it, there is no common law prevailing in the United States, and since the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment...

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