CARPENTER v. UNITED STATES

No. 7117.

100 F.2d 716 (1938)

CARPENTER v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 7, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Edgar Chadwick and J. Frank O'Brien, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

David A. Pine, U. S. Atty., and Roger Robb, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before GRONER, C. J., and MILLER and VINSON, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Appellant was indicted for perjury and convicted in the District Court. He seeks a reversal, first, because the trial court refused to declare a mistrial for alleged misstatements of a juror on his voir dire; second, because the court imposed sentence under the District of Columbia perjury statute instead of under the Federal statute.

The facts relied upon to sustain the first point are the following: When twelve prospective jurors were in the...

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