UNITED STATES v. RUNYON

No. 79-2072.

621 F.2d 317 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. William C. RUNYON, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 27, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Zoss, Myers, Knox & Hart, Des Moines, Iowa, for appellant.

Roxanne Barton Conlin, U. S. Atty. and Kermit B. Anderson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Des Moines, Iowa, for appellee.

Before HEANEY, BRIGHT and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Runyon was convicted on three counts of possessing unregistered firearms in violation of 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d) and 5871. The sole contention raised on appeal is whether the trial court committed plain error in failing to give an unrequested insanity instruction to the jury. In our judgment, the court did not plainly err. The charge of possession of unregistered firearms requires only that the defendant be shown to have possessed an item that he...

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