Weiner v. United States

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

Some United States Attorneys, when prosecuting for *523violations of tho National Prohibition, Act (Comp. St. § 101381,4 et seq.), show a disposition to depart as far. as they safely can from the rule which limits cross-examination of the defendant as to prior criminal convictions solely to an attack upon his credibility as a witness (when, as in this case, he has not put his character in issue) and to endeavor thus to lodge in the minds of jurors the thought that, as tho defendant has confessed a previous conviction for the commission of a similar crime, it is likely he…