Joel Rubin v. United States

SUTTLE, District Judge:

Appellant and one Frank Alpert were charged together in twenty-seven counts with forging, 1 and in one count with conspiring to forge, 2 the endorsements on certain Series E United States Treasury Bonds. During the trial the government elected to proceed on five of the substantive counts and the conspiracy count. At the end of the government’s case in chief, Alpert was granted judgment of acquittal on all counts, and appellant on the conspiracy count. The remaining counts against appellant were submitted to the jury, and he here attacks the resulting conviction and…