Opinion · Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States v. Mose Franklin Pearson
United States v. Mose Franklin Pearson, 667 F.2d 12 (5th Cir. 1982)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1982-02-01
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- "While it is a natural initial reaction to analogize aiding and abetting with conspiracy, the two are quite different. Conspiracy itself is a crime ....”
- Section 2 “allows a jury to find a person guilty of a substantive crime even though that person did not commit all acts constituting the elements of the crime.”
- “variance between indictment and proof is fatal only when it affects the ‘substantial rights’ of the defendant ...” (citation omitted)
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ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, KRAVITCH and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges.