UNITED STATES v. GREEN

No. 23156.

429 F.2d 754 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America v. Lawrence M. GREEN, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 17, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph Paull, Washington, D. C. (appointed by this court), for appellant.

Mr. William S. Block, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Daniel Harris, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and TAMM and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges.


BAZELON, Chief Judge:

Appellant was convicted of rape and sentenced to fifteen years in custody under the Federal Youth Corrections Act.1 At trial the defense was consent; appellant did not dispute that he had intercourse with the prosecutrix. On this appeal, his principal contentions are that the instructions to the jury on corroboration did not sufficiently focus on consent as the one element of the offense actually in dispute, and were...

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