Court Opinion

ID: 9650918
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 15:55:50.044443+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:27.375018
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HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge
(specially concurring).
I concur in the view of the majority that the trial.was without reversible error, and that the judgment should be affirmed.
I particularly concur in their view that if -the testimony of Brooks and Tinkler that they accepted bribe money was subject to the obj ection urged against it, and should not have been allowed to go to the jury, the error in admitting it was harmless. But I disagree with their view that the admission of this testimony was error. I think it was relevant and admissible as tending to prove both the agreement for the distribution of graft money, and its carrying out as a circumstance in the chain connecting Chadick with income received and willfully not reported.