Snitkin v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Leonard A. Snitkin. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error. Plaintiff in-error was tried, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment for five years, on an indictment in two counts for conspiracy.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Leonard A. Snitkin. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error. Plaintiff in-error was tried, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment for five years, on an indictment in two counts for conspiracy. In the first count, omitting introductory matter and overt acts, the offense was stated as follows: “That on or about the fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and thereafter up to and including the fifth…
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] Evidence for the government consisted largely of the testimony of Schur, a codefendant. Plaintiff in error took the witness stand and denied the case sought to be made by the government’s proofs. He fortified his defense by character witnesses. He requested the court to charge the jury:
“You have heard evidence of the standing and reputation of this defendant, Leonard Snitkin, for good character. That reputation alone may create a reasonable doubt of this defendant’s guilt in your minds, and is proper for you to consider.”
*492In connection with this request…
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