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232 F.2d 927

Docket No. 14812.

Gresham v. United States

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided April 2, 1956.

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1956-04-02

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1962

9 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1709 · 18 U.S.C. § 4

Relies on Brown v. United States · Bateman v. United States · Ziegler v. United States

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1956-04-02

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¶1*928Walter L. Gordon, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

¶2Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., Louis Lee Abbott, Leila F. Bulgrin, Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

¶3Before MATHEWS and FEE, Circuit Judges, and FOLEY, District Judge.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5Appellant, James Gresham, was indicted for violating 18 U.S.C.A. § 1709, pleaded not guilty and had a jury trial. The trial occupied parts of three days — February 23, February 25 and February 28, 1955. The jury was impanelled on February 23. On February 25, evidence was received, the case was argued, and the court gave part of its charge to the jury. On February 28, the court charged the jury further, and the jury retired to consider its verdict at 9:09 a. m., returned to the courtroom at 2:20 p. m., received further instructions,1 retired at 2:55 p. m., returned to the courtroom at 4:00 p. m., received further instructions2 and retired at 4:15 p. m. Thirty minutes later it returned a verdict of guilty. On that verdict, a judgment was entered sentencing appellant to be imprisoned for three years. This appeal is from that judgment.

¶6Appellant contends that, by the instructions last above mentioned, the jury was coerced into arriving at a verdict. On that ground alone, he seeks reversal of the judgment.

¶7In the trial court, appellant did not, at any time, object to any of the instructions or state any ground of such an objection.3 Hence we are not required to consider his contention.4 However, we have considered it5 and have found no merit in it.

¶8Judgment affirmed.

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