Thomas B. Pennewell v. United States

LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of false pretenses, 22 D.C.Code § 1301. Appellant’s contentions, for the most part, relate to minor excesses in the prosecutor’s argument to the jury, which either were not objected to or were promptly corrected by the District Judge. The one point which merits comment relates to the fact that the prosecutor in argument to the jury twice referred to defendant’s failure to produce as a witness one Schuman, who had been closely connected with the transactions giving rise to the charges against defendant. A subpoena duces tecum for…