Colt v. United States

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Defendant was convicted of conspiracy to secure bribes to be paid to him as a member of the Price Panel of the Rationing Board of Dade County, Florida, and- also of the substantive offense of accepting bribes for arranging favorable ceiling price for payees of the bribes.

In the conspiracy case no motion for a directed verdict was made in the lower Court, and, therefore, the sufficiency of the evidence is not here reviewable under the well-established rule which Defend*651ant’s present counsel candidly recognizes. He insists, however, that the conviction of the conspiracy was…