GOVERNMENT OF VIRGIN ISLANDS v. GRAVES

No. 78-1538.

593 F.2d 223 (1979)

GOVERNMENT OF the VIRGIN ISLANDS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gary GRAVES, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided February 16, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ishmael A. Meyers, U. S. Atty., David W. Denton, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V. I., for plaintiff-appellee.

Bernard Van Sluytman, Birch, De Jongh & Farrelly, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V. I., for defendant-appellant.

Before SEITZ, Chief Judge, and WEIS and GARTH, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

GARTH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to construe a statute of the Virgin Islands1 which proscribes the fraudulent use of credit cards. The proper interpretation of the statute was not one of the issues raised or briefed on appeal. However, at our request counsel discussed this issue with us at oral argument. Just as we are satisfied that the contentions raised by the appellant Graves in his brief...

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