Blisse v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Criminal prosecution by the United States against George A. Blisse. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
The defendant has been convicted under an indictment which charged him with giving a bribe to a post office inspector, to influence the inspector’s decision in a matter pending before him, and his counsel asks this court to reverse the judgment of conviction on several grounds, the most important of which are: (1) That the government failed to prove the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. (2) That error was committed in admitting the testimony of the expert. (3) That there was error in refusing the defendant’s requests to charge.
To sustain these assignments of error counsel…
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