Williams v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
VINSON, Associate Justice.
Appellant (defendant) was indicted on two counts of assault with' a dangerous weapon and one count of rape. He was ■found guilty of all three offenses and the jury added the death penalty to the rape verdict.
There was sufficient evidence, if believed, upon which the verdict, guilty of rape, could be based. Likewise, there was sufficient evidence, if believed, upon which it could be concluded that defendant did not commit the crime. The jury, not the court, is the trier of credibility. And if there were nothing more to the case than this, we should affirm. But in our…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Robinson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1942
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