UNITED STATES v. LINEBERGER

No. 71-1166.

444 F.2d 122 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Audrey Hester Cashatt LINEBERGER, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 22, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. P. McLendon, Jr. and James T. Williams, Jr., Greensboro, N. C. (E. Norman Graham and McLendon, Brim, Brooks, Pierce & Daniels, Greensboro, N. C., on brief) for appellant.

William L. Osteen, U. S. Atty., M. D. North Carolina, for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BOREMAN and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Audrey Hester Cashatt Lineberger, convicted of conspiring to steal stamps and money from a post office, assigns as error the refusal of the district court to permit her to impeach one of her own witnesses. Soundly reasoned cases properly allow impeachment, and the proposed Rules of Evidence abandon the traditional rule to the contrary.* The district court, however, did not commit reversible error, because substantially all...

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