United States v. William Phillip Taylor, AKA William Joseph Findley

Appellant was convicted on two counts of threatening the president of the United States with bodily harm. 18 U.S.C.A. § 871. 1

We find no error either in form or substance in the jury selection method used by the district court in this case. It was not error to deny the motion for acquittal on the basis of appellant’s lack of sanity. 2 The record does not make out a case of compulsory denial of process in obtaining witnesses for the defense nor a denial of the right to speedy trial. It is urged that the court erred in not sending various exhibits to the jury room for use in the jury…