Task: songer_geniss

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to identify the issue in the case, that is, the social and/or political context of the litigation in which more purely legal issues are argued. Put somewhat differently, this field identifies the nature of the conflict between the litigants. The focus here is on the subject matter of the controversy rather than its legal basis. Consider the following categories: "criminal" (including appeals of conviction, petitions for post conviction relief, habeas corpus petitions, and other prisoner petitions which challenge the validity of the conviction or the sentence), "civil rights" (excluding First Amendment or due process; also excluding claims of denial of rights in criminal proceeding or claims by prisoners that challenge their conviction or their sentence (e.g., habeas corpus petitions are coded under the criminal category); does include civil suits instituted by both prisoners and callable non-prisoners alleging denial of rights by criminal justice officials), "First Amendment", "due process" (claims in civil cases by persons other than prisoners, does not include due process challenges to government economic regulation), "privacy", "labor relations", "economic activity and regulation", and "miscellaneous".

PER CURIAM.
In reference to the first and second assignments of error and the claim made in the brief for plaintiff in error, but not assigned as error in the original petition, that defendant was not in court when sentence was imposed, it is sufficient to say that this court cannot consider claimed errors not exhibited by the record.
A witness offered by the government had been theretofore convicted of one or more offenses and sentenced by the District Court to a term or terms in jail. He testified on cross-examination : That he was still in jail serving such sentence, and that “nobody came down there and told me I could have a little time off if I would testify about Black. * * * They didn’t tell me they would make it a little easier on me. I wasn’t looking for any time off.” It was not prejudicial error for the district attorney to state, after the witness had so testified: “I will say to you I am going to recommend that his time he cut down.”
An assignment of error that no evidence was offered tending to prove that the offense charged was a second offense must be overrated, where it appears that during the trial of the cause counsel for the accused, in his presence, admitted in open court that the accused had theretofore been convicted of a like offense.
Where, at the conchision of the government’s evidence, the defendant moves the court for a directed verdict, and the motion is overruled and exception noted, the error, if any, is waived by the introduction of further evidence on behalf of the defendant.
The verdict and judgment in this case are fully sustained by substantial evidence.
Judgment affirmed.

Question: What is the general issue in the case?
A. criminal
B. civil rights
C. First Amendment
D. due process
E. privacy
F. labor relations
G. economic activity and regulation
H. miscellaneous
Answer:

Answer: A