Legal Opinion
B. H. Newman v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 27, 1956No. 15957_1PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
After affirmance of his conviction largely on the testimony of Williford, a paid Government informer, for illicit whiskey operations, Newman- v. United States, 5 Cir., 1955, 220 F.2d 289, certiorari denied 350 U.S. 824, 76 S.Ct. 51, 100 L.Ed. 736, Newman filed in the District Court a motion for new trial under Rule 33, Fed.Rules Crim.Proc. 18 U.S.C.A., Harrison v. United States, 5 Cir., 191 F.2d 874, on the basis of newly discovered evidence. The “new” evidence was not new at all in the real sense. On the contrary, it was but an assertion that Williford’s former,…
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