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United States v. Giles, 300 U.S. 41 (1937)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
United States v. Giles, 300 U.S. 41 (1937)
United States v. Giles No. 329 Argued January 13, 1937 Decided February 1, 1937 300 U.S. 41
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
Syllabus
1. The rule that criminal statutes must be strictly construed does not require that the words be given their narrowest meaning, or that the evident intent be disregarded. P. 48.
2. A bank teller who, for the purpose of concealing a shortage in his cash, withholds deposit slips which in the ordinary course of business will go to the bookkeeping department for entry, as a result whereof the ledger understates the amount of the bank’s liability to the depositors, violates R.S., § 5209, as amended, which denounces as a misdemeanant
any officer, director, agent, or employee of any Federal reserve bank, or a member bank . . . who makes any false entry in any book, report, or statement of such . . . bank, with intent in any case to injure or defraud . . .
Pp. 48-49.
To hold the statute broad enough to include deliberate action from which a false entry by an innocent intermediary necessarily follows, gives to the words employed their fair meaning and is in accord with the evident intent of Congress. To hold that it applies only when the accused personally writes the false entry or affirmatively directs another to do so would emasculate the statute, defeat the very end in view.
84 F. 2d 943 reversed; D.C. affirmed.
Certiorari, 299 U.S. 531, to review a judgment reversing a judgment of conviction for violation of R.S., § 5209.
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Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in United States v. Giles, 300 U.S. 41 (1937). cited in 1937, 300 U.S. 41, pp.300 U.S. 42. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D6HQYTAFZPJNLZ3.
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