Legal Opinion
Morton v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 22, 1945No. 8653PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Associate Justice.
The dead body of Grace G. Groome was found in Rock Creek Park on August 29, 1943. Appellant was convicted of second degree murder, upon circumstantial evidence which pointed to him as the killer. He appealed from the judgment of the trial court which imposed a sentence of imprisonment and, on appeal, presented two contentions: First, that the court received in evidence, against him, incompetent testimony; second, that the competent evidence which was given at the trial was insufficient to support the verdict.
It is not necessary to review in detail the gruesome…
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- United States v. MantonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1938
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