CROSS v. UNITED STATES

No. 17830.

347 F.2d 327 (1965)

Rebecca CROSS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

June 23, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DeWitte T. Lawson, Jr., of McDuffie, Cahill & Lawson, St. Louis, Mo., made argument for appellant and filed brief.

Richard D. FitzGibbon, Jr., U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., and John A. Newton, Asst. U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., submitted brief without oral argument for appellee.

Before BLACKMUN and RIDGE, Circuit Judges, and REGISTER, District Judge.


RIDGE, Circuit Judge.

After trial on a two-count indictment charging unlawful sales of narcotics, on two different days, in violation of 26 U.S. C.A. § 4705(a), appellant was found guilty by jury verdict and sentenced to concurrent terms of twenty years' imprisonment.

In the court below, appellant, standing on a motion for judgment of acquittal made at the close of the Government's case, offered no evidence in defense of the above charges. Nevertheless...

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