Court Opinion

ID: 9444330
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 20:56:45.624319+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:49.099588
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WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge,
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I agree that the evidence was inadequate to sustain a verdict finding Nelms guilty under the larceny count. The proof on which the jury found him guilty under the housebreaking count was, in my view, equally inadequate.
All the evidence introduced against this man was circumstantial. The circumstances proved were as consistent with innocence as with guilt. That being true, I think it is our duty to reverse the *680judgment of conviction. Hammond v. United States, 1942, 75 U.S.App.D.C. 397, 127 F.2d 752; United States v. Matsinger, 3 Cir., 1951, 191 F.2d 1014, 1016.