Camp v. United States

HOUGH, District Judge.

Plaintiff in error was convicted (with others) of a violation of section 37, Penal Code (Comp. St. §10201).

He complains, first, that the court erred in admitting testimony of the defendant Simpson, to the effect that he had made false statements about where he had obtained $500 in cash about the time of the alleged offense, without admonishing the jury that such admissions by the defendant Simpson were not competent as substantive evidence against the plaintiff in error; second, that the court erred in overruling the motion for peremptory instruction and in submitting…