Howard Langston Manley v. United States

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

In United States v. Curry and Manley (consolidated appeals), 512 F.2d 1299 (4th Cir. 1975), cert. den., 423 U.S. 832 (1975), this court reversed the conviction „of Howard Langston Manley and remanded for a new trial on six counts of drug law violations 1 because of improper proof of character evidence. The conviction of Manley’s co-defendant, Drayton Curry, was affirmed but remanded for resentencing under our decision in United States v. Atkinson, 512 F.2d 1235, 1240 (4th Cir. 1975). Under Atkinson, when the only evidence of possession of a controlled substance with…