United States v. Phillip Ray Wyatt

Appellant Phillip Ray Wyatt was convicted of four counts of violations of 18 U.S.C. § 473 1 and sentenced to four concurrent five year prison terms. He raises two arguments: that certain exhibits consisting of obligations stamped with the word “counterfeit” should not have been admitted into evidence, and that there was insufficient evidence of intent to pass the obligations as true and genuine to withstand a motion to dismiss Counts Three and Four of the indictment.

Wyatt’s first argument concerns the admission into evidence of several exhibits consisting of some of the allegedly counterfeit…