Griffin v. United States

EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

We affirmed appellant’s conviction of murder in the first degree. 83 U.S.App.D.C. 20, 164 F.2d 903. The Supreme Court denied certiorari. 333 U.S. 857, 68 S.Ct. 727, 92 L.Ed. 1137. The District Court afterward declined to grant a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence and we affirmed without opinion.1 The .Supreme Court granted certiorari and remanded the case to us “with instructions to decide, in the first instance, what rule should prevail in the District of Columbia” with respect to the admissibility of “uncommunicated threats” of the deceased against…