Samuel H. Hood v. United States of America, Harry A. Jackson v. United States

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge.

On these appeals from a jury conviction of robbery, two alleged errors in the course of the trial itself are advanced as requiring reversal. 1 One has to do with the failure of the trial court to direct the Government that it could not use a conviction to impeach appellant Hood. The other derives from the failure to restrict the cross-examination of appellant’s alibi witness. We affirm because we do not believe reversal is necessitated by either, or both together.

I

At the close of the Government’s case, defense counsel approached the bench to report that appellant Hood…