JORDAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 20104.

324 F.2d 178 (1963)

William Alfred JORDAN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 6, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Gunter Toney, Tallahassee, Fla., for appellant.

Clinton Ashmore, U. S. Atty., Richard W. Ervin, III, Stewart J. Carrouth, Asst. U. S. Attys., Tallahassee, Fla., for appellee.

Before RIVES and JONES, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

The appellant seeks relief from a sentence for violation of the internal revenue law imposing a tax on distilled spirits, 26 U.S.C.A. § 5601(a) (12), and makes two contentions on appeal. He first urges that it was error to admit testimony that when he was arrested, about eight months after the offense, he gave a fictitious name. The evidence was admissible both as justifying an inference of guilt by hiding under an assumed name and as proof of identity...

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