Court Opinion

ID: 9455740
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:31:49.386521+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:42.967033
License: Public Domain

ORDER ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
PER CURIAM:
The petition for rehearing is denied. See United States v. Arcuri, 2 Cir., 405 F.2d 691; Dyer v. MacDougall, 2 Cir., 201 F.2d 265, and United States v. Ford, 2 Cir., 237 F.2d 57.
Appellant relies on our case of Murray v. United States, 9 Cir., 403 F.2d 694. We think the case is right in reversing the conviction as to Lonnie Murray. Certainly disbelief of his and his brother’s testimony could not lead to an inference of all of the elements of the crime as to Lonnie. Disbelief of Lonnie’s testimony might lead to the inference that Lonnie knew his brother, Johnnie, was carrying the heroin. But still it could not be used as proof of joint enterprise which was necessary to convict Lonnie.
*1165Johnnie Murray was convicted. The heroin was taped to him, hidden from view. His conviction was sustained, although he testified he did not know the contents of the rubber taped to him.
It is submitted that there must have been an affirmative inference allowed from disbelief of Johnnie’s testimony as to knowledge. It tended to corroborate the inferences drawn from the furtive secreting of the heroin: to wit, Johnnie knew it was contraband. The case is right on its facts.