Mac T. Hall v. United States

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Tried to the court without a jury, 1 Hall was found guilty on Counts 1, 10, 11 and 12 of the indictment and was sentenced to imprisonment for two years. His appeal presents the single question of the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the judgment of conviction.

The Government calls attention that no motion for judgment of acquittal was made in accordance with Rule 29(a), Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and insists that the applicable test for review is that “the error must be such as would result in manifest miscarriage of justice or affect seriously the fairness…