Phillip Coltrane v. United States

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:

A jury in the District Court found appellant guilty on all charges preferred by an indictment in four counts of taking indecent liberties with a child 1 and three counts of sodomy 2 with the same child. He was sentenced to terms of imprisonment of from two to ten years on each of the sodomy counts, and from two to eight years on each of the others, all terms to be served concurrently. He attacks the conviction on the grounds that the child-complainant’s testimony was not corroborated sufficiently to authorize conviction on any of the counts, and that…