Charles M. Luck v. United States

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

Appellant was convicted of housebreaking and larceny after a trial at which he put forward an alibi defense. His principal contentions upon appeal are that the District Court erred in (a) receiving in evidence appellant’s admission of guilt, and (b) allowing the Government to show by way of impeachment his prior conviction of grand larceny.

Police testimony offered at the trial as a part of the prosecution’s case was as follows: At 10:04 P.M. on June 8, 1963, a burglar alarm company received a sig*765nal from a laundry. Police were alerted and arrived at the scene within a…