Evans v. United States

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

This appeal from convictions under a three-count indictment charging the taking of indecent liberties with minors 1 presents evidentiary questions respecting use of an admission made shortly after the arrest, the sufficiency of corroborative evidence, and evidence respecting specific intent. A question raised at oral argument and then addressed in supplemental memoranda also merits discussion. That question is whether it was plain error to instruct in terms of the statute respecting specific intent to arouse or gratify, inter alia, the sexual desires of the defendant…