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U.S. v. CAVADA

Nos. 86-6029, 87-2091 Summary Calendar.

821 F.2d 1046 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Elsa D. CAVADA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 1, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. DiCarlo, (Court-Appointed), Corpus Christi, Tex., for defendant-appellant in No. 86-6029.

Mark A. Di Carlo, Corpus Christi, Tex., for defendant-appellant in No. 87-2091.

Francis H. Stacy, Asst. U.S. Atty., Henry K. Oncken, U.S. Atty., Susan L. Yarbrough, James R. Gough, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RUBIN, RANDALL, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

The sole issue is whether the enactment of a statute penalizing as a misdemeanor the forgery of an endorsement on a Treasury check, the face value of which does not exceed $500, repeals by implication the statute penalizing as a felony the forgery of any government writing, as applied to the forgery of a signature on a Treasury Check for $136.66. Following the lead of two other circuits, we hold that the earlier statute was not repealed...

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