United States v. Samuel G. Beno

KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge.

Samuel G. Beno, an Internal Revenue Agent, was convicted by a jury of soliciting and receiving a set of the En-cyclopaedia Britannica and a dictionary from a taxpayer, intending that they in-. fluence his official decisions in violation of federal law, 18 U.S.C. § 202. On appeal, Beno contends that the prosecution was improperly permitted to educe on cross-examination highly prejudicial evidence concerning specific acts of the defendant which were wholly unrelated to the offense charged, and was further allowed to introduce extensive independent damaging testimony with…