COTTON v. UNITED STATES

No. 8332.

355 F.2d 480 (1966)

Louis Samuel COTTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

January 3, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Fagin, Oklahoma City, Okl., for appellant.

James R. Ward, Topeka, Kan. (Newell A. George, Kansas City, Kan., with him on brief), for appellee.

Before MURRAH, Chief Judge, and BREITENSTEIN and SETH, Circuit Judges.


MURRAH, Chief Judge.

This appeal involves the propriety of the ruling of the trial court which permitted the government to inquire of the accused-witness whether he had been previously adjudicated a juvenile delinquent under the Juvenile Delinquency Act, 18 U.S.C. § 5032, for the same type of offense for which he was then on trial.

The question arose in this way. The appellant was on trial for the possession...

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