Dean R. Hansberry v. United States

BARNES, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict and judgment of the district court adjudging appellant guilty of embezzling public funds while he was a disbursing officer of the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 653. Jurisdiction below rested on 18 U.S.C. § 3231, and here rests on 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 1294.

Appellant was charged with embezzling $63,000 on unknown dates “between December 1955 and June 24, 1957.”

Five errors are asserted:(1) Insufficiency of the evidence.(2) Error in refusing to strike all evidence of appellant’s financial condition prior to June of 1957.(3)…