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235 F.2d 223

Docket No. 13298.

Lyons v. United States

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued June 28, 1956.

Decided July 12, 1956.

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1956-07-12

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1960

3 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1956-07-12

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¶1Mr. Daniel I. Sherry, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

¶2Mr. Nathan J. Paulson, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Edward P. Troxell, Principal Asst. U. S. Atty., and Lewis Carroll, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

¶3Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and PRETTYMAN and BASTIAN, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of violation of the narcotic laws. His principal point on appeal is that the trial court should have directed a verdict of acquittal because of the alleged existence of entrapment.

¶6An examination of the record in this case discloses that if the jury believed the principal witness for the Government —which it obviously did — there was no entrapment. The jury was carefully and correctly instructed on this point.

¶7Nor do we find any error affecting substantial rights on the other points argued on behalf of appellant.

¶8Affirmed.

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