United States v. Howard Lee White

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Howard Lee White, is a man to be pitied. Born in 1929, he finished the third grade of regular school, the fifth grade in reform school, and went to about the tenth grade in other prison schools. At his trial on July 30, 1974, he testified that for various offenses, none of them violent crimes, he had spent twenty nine years in prison. He was then 45 years old.

In the instant case, White was convicted on four counts, of interstate transportation of forged securities, worthless checks, 18 U.S.C., § 2314. He seeks reversal on the following grounds:(a) his…