Legal Opinion
Alford v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 24, 1931No. 370PublishedCited by 1,277 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
Petitioner was convicted in the District Court .for Southern California of using the mails to defraud in violation of § 215 of the Criminal Code. The Court granted certiorari, to review a judgment of affirmance by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which upheld certain rulings of the trial court upon the evidence. 41 ■F. (2d) 157.
’In. the course of the trial the government called .as a witness a former employee of petitioner. On direct examination he gave damaging testimony with respect to various transactions of accused, including conversations with the witness when others were not…
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