United States v. Eugene Cunningham

In this appeal from a conviction, by a jury, for forcible resistance to federal officers engaged in the conduct of their duties, 1 the only issue raised is whether the trial court erred in denying appellant’s motion for acquittal at the close of all the evidence.

The evidence, taken in the light most favorable to the Government, tended to establish the following. Pursuant to an order of the District Court, United States Marshals conducted appellant and three other inmates of the cell block in the Superior Court’s Building B to the central cell block at Metropolitan Police Headquarters for a…