Legal Opinion
United States v. Hugh Brown and Lewis D. Hayes
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 23, 1971No. 30563PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:
This appeal illustrates the type of criminal case in which government counsel, having adequately proved sufficient facts to warrant submission of the question of the guilt of the two defendants to the jury has, through his over-zealousness, caused the court to commit error which requires a reversal of the conviction and sentence and the holding of a new trial.
The specific errors complained of in this narcotics law violation prosecution, resulting in ten and twenty year sentences respectively for the appellants, are: (1) that the trial court erred in admitting, over…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Michelson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Lawn v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- J. Monroe Dunn v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
- United States v. Larry WareCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1957
- Harold Gradsky v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by72 opinions
- United States v. David GarzaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- United States v. Laurel Joan MorrisCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- United States v. Michael E. QuintoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
- United States v. Joseph E. SmithCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
- Coulter v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973
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