WOOD v. UNITED STATES

No. 19258.

310 F.2d 52 (1962)

Mack Hayes WOOD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Lumpkin, Tupelo, Miss., Colin L. Stockdale, Jackson, Miss., for appellant.

H. M. Ray, U. S. Atty., Alfred E. Moreton, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Oxford, Miss., for appellee.

Before RIVES, CAMERON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

A reading of the record in this case convinces us that the handling by the court below of the recalcitrant witness was not prejudicial. The complaints which appellant makes concern the minutiae of the trial, which are matters for the sound judicial discretion of the trial judge. The court's refusal to give the charge requested by appellant with respect to accomplice testimony was not erroneous; the charge given fairly instructed the jury as to the weight...

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