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UNITED STATES v. WRIGHT

No. 75-1247.

537 F.2d 1144 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Cornelius M. WRIGHT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 22, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Dangel, III, Boston, Mass. by appointment of the Court, with whom Dangel & Smith and Alan S. Geismer, Jr., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendant-appellant.

Henry Hammond, Asst. U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., with whom James N. Gabriel, U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, ALDRICH and McENTEE, Circuit Judges.

McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

After a jury waived trial, appellant was convicted of making a false statement in connection with the purchase of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6).1 Specifically, he was found to have falsely certified to a firearms dealer that he had not been convicted of a felony, when in fact he had a record of several felony convictions.2

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