DOHERTY v. UNITED STATES

No. 14811.

230 F.2d 605 (1956)

John DOHERTY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

February 14, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred J. Hennessy, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., John H. Riordan, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Richard H. Foster, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before HEALY and LEMMON, Circuit Judges, and MATHES, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This appeal from a judgment of conviction in a narcotics case, 21 U.S.C. § 174, is predicated upon the assumption that the California rule declining to credit testimony of an accomplice, unless corroborated, is applicable in the Federal courts. Cal.Penal Code, § 1111; People v. Dail, 1943, 22 Cal.2d 642, 140 P.2d 828.

In the exercise of supervisory authority over rules governing the admissibility of evidence in federal criminal trials...

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