Legal Opinion
United States v. Jimmy D. Morris, Franklin W. Briggs
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 16, 1994No. 93-2859PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
The appellants, Jimmy D. Morris and Franklin W. Briggs, present three challenges to their conviction for criminal filing and subscribing of false income tax returns. The appellants assert that the evidence against them was insufficient to support a conviction, that the trial court improperly refused to instruct the jury on a permissible theory of defense, and that their sentence was improperly computed. We find that the evidence presented against the appellants at trial was sufficient to sustain a conviction. We hold, however, that the failure of the trial court to…
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