UNITED STATES v. JONES

No. 78-5165.

608 F.2d 1004 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Garnett Johnnie JONES, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 8, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Smith, Baltimore, Md. (Gebhardt & Smith, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellant.

David Dart Queen, Asst. U.S. Atty., Baltimore, Md. (Russell T. Baker, U.S. Atty., and Kurt L. Schmoke, Asst. U.S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and WINTER and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Convicted of bank robbery, Garnett Johnnie Jones appeals, assigning as reversible error the limited scope of the district court's voir dire of prospective jurors, its refusal to excuse two veniremen for cause, its instructions concerning the testimony of a witness who played a part in the crime and a witness who admitted to using drugs, and the absence of black males on the jury which rendered the verdict. We see no merit in any of these contentions...

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