Legal Opinion
United States v. Fred K. Brooks
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 11, 1980No. 79-5050PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
A dealer charged with selling firearms to a person he knew or should have known to be a nonresident in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(b)(3) and with falsifying records of the transactions in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(m) seeks reversal of his conviction. Finding the attacks on the constitutionality of the charge and the validity of the indictment to be without merit, we consider alleged error in the jury instructions. We hold that, while the charge might have been more complete, it was sufficient to put the real issues to the jury and that, in addition, if it was…
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