Hubert Marshall Aaron v. United States

*585WILLIAM A. McRAE, Jr., District Judge:

This appeal is from a jury conviction on all but three counts of a forty-count indictment. Appellant was convicted for willfully making false entries in bank records (18 U.S.C. § 1005), embezzlement and misapplication of bank funds (18 U.S.C. § 656).

The sole issue raised on appeal is the propriety of the prosecution’s cross-examination of Appellant’s first character witness, Haywood Watts. The pertinent part of the examination follows:

DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. TUNNELL, DEFENSE COUNSEL: (R. 783, 784)

Q. Mr. Watts, referring to the period of time that Mr.…