United States v. William Darryl Blakemore

WILLIAM E. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a criminal conviction in the district court. The defendant-appellant, William Darryl Blake-more, was convicted in the court below on a charge of possessing a sawed-off .12 gauge shotgun in violation of 26 U. S.C. § 5861(d). He was given a five year sentence to run concurrently with a ten year sentence he had received in state court for armed robbery.

The appellant makes a number of contentions on appeal, one of which is that the trial judge erred in allowing the prosecutor to comment in his argument to the jury that the defendant’s…