Court Opinion

ID: 9462682
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:47:18.011825+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:43.128420
License: Public Domain

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I concur in the result reached in this case in all but one respect. As to defendant Bourgeois, I respectfully disagree with the instruction to the trial court to dismiss the complaint. In my judgment the evidence available to the jury, which will presumably be again available at a new trial, was ample to allow the jury to conclude that Bourgeois supplied “line” information for appellant Leon’s gambling operation and regularly accepted “lay-off” bets from Leon which Leon could not handle.
I also believe that the inferences to be drawn from the evidence (to the degree it was in conflict) were inferences for the jury and not for this court.