United States v. Enid Salter A/K/A Aaron Salter

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a conviction, after trial before Chief Judge Curtin and a jury in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, on two counts of an indictment which charged appellant with unlawfully encouraging the entry of two Jamaican women not lawfully entitled to enter or reside within the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(4). 1 Although several points are raised, only one merits discussion.

One of the women, Shirley Paul, testified that while in Canada she had given $600 to an unknown man to transmit to Salter, who…