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252 F.2d 120

Docket No. 16787.

Smith v. United States

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Feb. 13,1958.

Rehearing Denied March 27, 1958.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1958-02-13

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1959

3 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““The accused fails to show that the Court’s criticized answer to his motion was made within the hearing of any person who was later chosen and sworn as a juror in the case.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Smith v. United States

Relies on Finley v. United States

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1958-02-13

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¶1*121Joseph A. St. Ana, Miami, Fla., for •appellant.

¶2O. B. Cline, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., James L. Guilmartin, U. S. Atty., La-vinia L. Redd, Asst. U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., for appellee.

¶3Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE and JONES, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5This appeal from conviction of appellant of violation of the Harrison Narcotics Act, 26 U.S.C.A. § 4744, presents no ground on which this Court can base a reversal. Complaining first that the trial court commented, before the jury was sworn, and, apparently from reading the record, even before the jury was struck by the parties, about narcotics cases in such a way as would prejudice appellant, the accused fails to show that the court’s criticized answer to his motion was made within the hearing of any person who was later chosen and sworn as a juror in the case.

¶6Seeking a reversal of the conviction on the second ground that evidence in the form of the marijuana was illegally obtained and should not, therefore, have been admitted, the appellant is met by the insuperable barrier of having failed either before or during the trial to move for the suppression of this evidence, Rule 41(e), F.R.Crim.P., 18 U. S.C.A., to object to its reception or request that the testimony as to it be stricken.

¶7The third ground, an alleged failure of the trial court to charge adequately as to the meaning of “possession,” is equally unavailable because, though twice given the opportunity to request added instructions and to object to instructions given, appellant’s trial counsel failed to take the required steps to enable the judge to consider the correctness of his charge. Rule 30, F.R.Crim.P.; Finley v. United States, 5 Cir., 246 F.2d 604.

¶8The judgment is affirmed.

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