United States v. J. Norman Jones

BARNES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction of the one defendant remaining after three codefendants entered pleas of guilty to one or two counts of a nine count indictment charging a violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1341, or 1343. Appellant was convicted on six counts, and sentenced concurrently to eighteen months to five years on each count.

In the vernacular, appellant was charged with! large scale “check kiting.”

Appellant raises six alleged errors relating to the conduct of the trial judge; two more as to the misconduct of the prosecutrix; three as to instructions; four…