Legal Opinion
United States v. Spaeth
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided June 14, 1957No. Cr. 20988PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEICK, District Judge.
The defendant has been tried and convicted three times of the crime of perjury.
The two previous convictions were reversed by the Court of Appeals for errors of law occurring at the trials. Spaeth v. United States, 6 Cir., 218 F 2d 361; Spaeth v. United States, 6 Cir., 232 F.2d 776, 777.
Defendant has now filed a motion for judgment of acquittal and in the alternative for a new trial to obtain relief from his third conviction.
The principal ground urged in support of the motion is that the evidence at the third trial was insufficient to support the verdict of the jury. The…
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