FRENCH v. UNITED STATES

No. 15438.

232 F.2d 736 (1956)

Homer Jefferson FRENCH, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Malcolm E. Lafargue, Shreveport, La., for appellant.

E. V. Boagni, Asst. U. S. Atty., T. Fitzhugh Wilson, U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., for appellee.

Before BORAH, TUTTLE and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


BORAH, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted on a ten-count indictment for falsely making and forging five narcotics prescriptions and for uttering and publishing the same as true, all in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 494. From the judgment and sentence which were entered upon the jury verdict, defendant has appealed.

Appellant first contends that it was error to convict him upon confessions uncorroborated by proof of the corpus delicti. He makes...

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