WARD v. UNITED STATES

No. 22623.

356 F.2d 938 (1966)

Keith Elvis WARD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

February 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Young J. Simmons, Ocala, Fla., for appellant.

James H. Walsh, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., Donald I. Bierman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Edward F. Boardman, U. S. Atty., for appellee.

Before JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and BREWSTER, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

The appellant seeks a reversal of a two count conviction for embezzling funds of a national bank for alleged insufficiency of the evidence and improper argument by government counsel.

The question of the sufficiency of the evidence turns upon the competency of the summary testimony of the head bookkeeper of the bank tracing the misappropriated funds to the appellant's checking account in the bank. The appellant claims that such testimony was secondary...

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