Robert James Smith v. United States

CECIL, Circuit Judge.

Smith was convicted by a jury in the District Court of the offense of telephoning the federal agency in charge of the Control Tower at the Greater Cincinnati Airport, false information that a bomb was on an outgoing civil aircraft. Title 18 U.S.C. § 35. He was fined $1,000 and sentenced to imprisonment for one year.

In his appeal, Smith claims the Trial Court erred in excluding testimony offered by the defense tending to impeach the Government witness Tony Hoobler. On direct examination Hoobler testified that he was in the office of King Bonding Company in Cincinnati when…