Louis Charles King v. United States

WYATT, District Judge:

This appeal raises several questions concerning the conduct of a criminal jury trial at Utica in late. February and early March, 1973. Appellant King and three co-defendants were on March 1,1973, found guilty by the jury of violations of sections of Title II of the Consumer Credit Protection Act (18 U.S.C. §§ 891 and following; sometimes referred to as prohibiting “loan sharking” activities). Judge Lloyd F. MacMahon of the Southern District of New York presided at the trial, sitting by designation.

King, the appellant, moved in January, 1977, in the court below under 28…