BOHOL v. UNITED STATES

No. 14725.

227 F.2d 330 (1955)

Franklin Santos BOHOL and Henry Torres Dias, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

November 18, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Y. Kobayashi, Honolulu, Hawaii, for appellants.

Louis B. Blissard, U. S. Atty., Charles B. Dwight, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Honolulu, Hawaii, Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before BONE and LEMMON, Circuit Judges, and HARRISON, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Appellants appeal from convictions for the sale of narcotics in four counts.

Bohol submitted himself as a witness. To sustain him as such his counsel inquired as to whether he had been "convicted once for possession of marijuana". He stated that he had on one occasion. Appellants complain of the cross-examination which follows and which is set forth in the footnote.1 They claim that the prosecutor knew that the conviction...

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