Raymond Alfred Beaudine v. United States

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

The Appellant, Beaudine, an officer of Clearwater Federal Savings and Loan Association, was convicted for taking kickbacks from a contractor performing work for borrowers under Title I, Home Improvement Loan, in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 1006. Beside the attack upon the sufficiency of the evidence which we find unavailing once the standard of “defrauding” is fixed, his complaint is directed primarily to the undue restriction of cross examination of the contractor, an admitted ex-convict, and one who had participated in like ventures before. We conclude that…