Legal Opinion
United States v. Frank Smith
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 14, 1970No. 28438_1PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant Frank Smith comes before this Court with several attacks upon a denial by the district court of his motion for new trial. 1 We affirm.
Smith alleges that the district court erred in refusing to grant a new trial on the basis of newly discovered evidence. The motion was based on the post-trial affidavit of Richard Hinton, a chief prosecution witness at Smith’s trial, which stated that Hinton recanted his trial testimony and that this testimony against Smith was false and untrue. At the hearing on the motion the government introduced evidence that Hinton’s affidavit was made in the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- United States v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Larrison v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1928
- Michael Joseph Gurleski and Dorothy Villafranca v. United States of America, Frank Smith v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Harrison v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1925
- Norton Edward Richardson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
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3Cited by30 opinions
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