Court Opinion

ID: 9448099
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:23:17.578142+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:17.605394
License: Public Domain

DE VANE, District Judge,
dissenting.
In the course of his opinion Circuit Judge Jones states:
“We are cautioned by the United States Attorney to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the Government, and that we are not to invade the province of the jury by passing upon questions of credibility or the weight of the evidence. We look at the evidence as it comes before us in the record and are unable to find anything more than suspicion and the surmise to sustain the con*449vietion of Clark, the appellant. To sustain the conviction of Clark on the theory that he was an aider and abettor there must be evidence that he aided and abetted Crowley in transporting and concealing the untaxpaid whiskey.”
I view the evidence in this case much as did the jury and the District Judge and I am convinced, as they were, that the evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction of Clark. Circumstantial evidence in no case is ever positive proof, but in this case it and other evidence in the case is certainly sufficient to support the jury verdict.
I, therefore,
Dissent.