Claude B. Morgan v. United States

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

Summoning as we must our most perceptive antennae to detect prejudicial communications with a juror, we nevertheless affirm the trial court’s findings that the jury was not compromised.

The appellant, Claude B. Morgan, appeals from an order of the district court denying a motion for new trial based on an alleged prejudicial communication between a stranger to the proceedings and a juror. Morgan was tried by a jury and found guilty under an indictment charging him with violations of 18 U.S. C. Sec. 1341. The substance of the charge was that Morgan used the mail to…