EDWARDS v. UNITED STATES

No. 7533.

18 F.2d 402 (1927)

EDWARDS v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

March 22, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. L. Burton, of Parsons, Kan., and C. A. McNeill, of Carlyle, Ill., for plaintiff in error.

Alton H. Skinner, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Topeka, Kan. (Al F. Williams, U. S. Atty., of Topeka, Kan., on the brief), for the United States.

Before STONE and VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judges, and TRIEBER, District Judge.


TRIEBER, District Judge.

This is the second appearance of this case in this court. On the first hearing the judgment of conviction was reversed upon the ground that, after the jury had reported inability to agree on a verdict, the court, in an additional charge on the controlling points in the case, used language that was not free from argument, and was in some degree calculated to coerce a verdict. 7 F.2d 598, 602.

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