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355 F.2d 205

Docket No. 22156.

Smith v. United States

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Jan. 24, 1966.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1966-01-24

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1966

1 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1966-01-24

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¶1Robert B. Thompson, Gainesville, Ga., for appellant.

¶2Gary B. Blasingame, Asst. U. S. Atty., Macon, Ga., for appellee.

¶3Before BROWN and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and GARZA, District Judge.

¶4PER CURIAM:

¶5On a trial for illicit liquor operations, the Defendant-Appellant took the stand as a witness. The Government, quite naturally and properly, offered evidence of his prior and somewhat extensive record of convictions. The Court received this for the limited purpose of impeachment. The only error asserted here is that the charge as to credibility of the accused and other witnesses was incorrect. If there was error, and we do not intimate that there necessarily was, it was at most a slight technical imperfection. When considered in the light of the charge as a whole, the jury could not possibly have been confused or misdirected by these instructions and no prejudicial harm resulted.

¶6Affirmed.

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