United States v. Franklin Eugene Williams and James Edison Williams

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

The Williams brothers, Franklin and James, here appeal from convictions in the district court for alleged dealings in counterfeit United States currency. 1 We find support in the record for such claims of irregularities in the proceedings below as to require that the case be retried. We accordingly reverse and remand.

A number of asserted errors are insisted upon by the appellants between them. We dispose of the more serious of these contentions more or less in the order in which they are raised by the briefs. We limit our discussion of the evidence because of the…