Joseph M. McConnell v. United States

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Joseph M. McConnell was convicted on a jury trial of two counts of having passed and uttered a forged United States postal money order, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 500, and sentenced to a term of five years on each count to run concurrently.

On his appeal he assigns as error: (1) denial of his motion for acquittal in that the United States failed to prove that the crime occurred within the territorial jurisdiction of the court; (2) the trial court’s restriction of the cross-examination of a principal prosecution witness, a Government handwriting expert, which…