United States v. Lawrence Jerome Ring

McCREE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction, by jury, of mailing threatening letters in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 876, par. 3. 1 Appellant contends, inter alia, that the district court erred in admitting, during the prosecution’s case in chief, evidence that he had previously threatened over the telephone a person other than the recipient of the threatening letters that were the reason for the indictment. The dispositive issue is whether this evidence of prior threats was admissible to show the accused’s criminal intent. We hold that it was not, and that evidence that the accused…