Court Opinion

ID: 9456217
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:45:55.685184+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:53.656563
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EDWARDS, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
Respectfully, I dissent.
This record, as the majority seems to agree, did present a jury question. If so, on appeal from a jury verdict of guilty, we are required to review the evidence from the point of view most favorable to the government. Glasser v. United States, 315 U.S. 60, 80, 62 S.Ct. 457, 86 L.Ed. 680 (1941).
The disputed date (alleged in the indictment to have been “on or about October 5, 1965”) was not a material element of the offense itself. Stewart v. United States, 395 F.2d 484, 488 (8th Cir. 1968).
The District Judge’s instruction that the government did not have to prove “that exact date” is supported by good authority. Ledbetter v. United States, 170 U.S. 606, 612, 18 S.Ct. 774, 42 L.Ed. 1162 (1898); Mathes, Jury Instructions and Forms § 5.02, 27 F.R.D. 39, 88.
I do not think the charge constituted reversible error.