Ben Warren Bass v. United States

McALLISTER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of causing a threatening letter to be de- Iivered through the mail, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 876, and was sentenced to the custody of the Attorney General for a period of eighteen months, and fined $750.

On appeal, numerous contentions are advanced on behalf of the accused: that the court erred in refusing to allow appellant’s handwriting experts to examine, in advance of the trial, a “standard of comparison” — consisting of a letter dictated to appellant by an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which…