Legal Opinion
United States v. George Silva Salas and Pappy Fuentes
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 19, 1967No. 30348_1PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYS, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Salas was convicted on three counts and appellant Fuentes was convicted on one count of selling narcotics in violation of 26 U.S.C. §§ 4705(a) and 7237(b) after a trial before the Honorable Thomas F. Murphy and a jury. We affirm the judgments of conviction.
Appellants contend that the trial court erred in its charge to the jury in the following respects: (1) In failing to charge that the government had the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the appellants were not entrapped; (2) in failing to charge that the jury could find Fuentes not guilty by…
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