U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1966

Harold Franklin Smith v. United States

Harold Franklin Smith v. United States
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · Decided January 24, 1966 · Brown, Coleman, Garza, Per Curiam
355 F.2d 205 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Harold Franklin Smith v. United States

Opinion

PER CURIAM:

On 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.

Affirmed.

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