Gallagher v. United States

FARIS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was tried and convicted on three counts of an indictment, and given as punishment concurrent sentences of five years in the federal prison for women at Alderson, W. Va. Counts 1 and 2 jointly charged her and another with passing and uttering counterfeit money, and in the third count the charge was for possessing such money.

The grounds relied on for reversal are (a) that the trial court erred in permitting a witness for the government to testify that after appellant’s arrest, she refused to make any statement, except to say, “1 will do my talking in court”; (b)…