United States v. Charles Stewart Tucker

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Tucker, an officer of the Army Corps of Engineers is here appealing his conviction under Section 202 of Title 18, United States Code, on a charge of accepting gratuities with intent to have his official decisions and actions influenced thereby. The occurrences in question took place during the construction of the new Tobyhanna Signal Depot, a multimillion dollar project which included some eighteen new buildings, needed utilities systems and sundry site improvements. Appellant was for a time the resident army engineer of this project. There was evidence that…