Court Opinion

ID: 8816913
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 15:21:04.649709+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:04:30.378455
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SMYTH, Chief Justice
(dissenting). I am constrained to dissent because in my judgment:
(a) The women were not accomplices. Hays v. United States, 231 Fed. 106, 110, 145 C. C. A. 294; Diggs v. United States, 220 Fed. 545, 553, 136 C. C. A. 147; United States v. Holte, 236 U. S. 140, 35 Sup. Ct. 271, 59 L. Ed. 504, L. R. A. 1915D, 281. And, if they were,
(b) The refusal to give the requested instruction was not reversible error. Caminetti v. United States, 242 U. S. 470, 37 Sup. Ct. 192, 61 L. Ed. 442, L. R. A. 1917F, 502, Ann. Cas. 1917B, 1168; Holmgren v. United States, 217 U. S. 509, 30 Sup. Ct. 588, 54 L. Ed. 861, 19 Ann. Cas. 778; Wallace v. United States, 243 Fed. 301, 310, 156 C. C. A. 80. These cases are all later than United States v. Neverson, 1 Mackey (12 D. C.) 152.