UNITED STATES v. FIELDS

No. 77-5326.

572 F.2d 1390 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. General Park FIELDS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

April 14, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Henry Haile, Haile & Martin, Nashville, Tenn., for defendant-appellant.

Hal D. Hardin, U. S. Atty., Lawrence Ray Whitley, William Gary Blackburn, Asst. U. S. Attys., Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WEICK and ENGEL, Circuit Judges, and CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.


ORDER

The sole issue in this appeal from the defendant's conviction of receiving and concealing stolen property is whether a comment in the closing argument by counsel for a codefendant relating to defendant's failure to testify in his own behalf was error which was not cured by the corrective instructions of the court which followed. Appellant relies upon this court's decision in United States v. McKinney, 379 F.2d 259 ...

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