United States v. Gordon

PINE, District Judge.

This is a Motion for a New Trial under Rule 33, Fed.R.Crim.P. The grounds for the motion as set forth therein are (1) that the sole Government witness against defendant at the trial was Horace Lafayette Logan, also known as Leroy Logan, Jr., (2) that on proper cross examination at trial Logan denied that he had ever been convicted of larceny, (3) that in fact Logan had been duly convicted of larceny in the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions on the 12th day of November, 1962, (4) that counsel for the defendant at trial exercised all due diligence to prove this…