United States v. Charles Frederick Gerhart

GIBSON, Chief Judge.

Defendant, Charles Frederick Gerhart, appeals from his jury conviction of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1014 (1970) for knowingly making a material false statement on a loan application to influence a member bank of the Federal Reserve System to approve and make him a loan. He was sentenced to one year in prison. The sole contention raised by the defendant on this appeal is that the District Court 1 erred in admitting into evidence a photocopy of a document over the defendant’s best-evidence objection. The document consisted of a photocopy of a bank check. The proffered exhibit…