Atchley v. California

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• holding admissible a letter which a woman had purportedly written to a judge 2 days before her death, stating that her husband had threatened her and she feared him, where the defendant husband claimed she had threatened him
• holding admissible a letter which a woman had purportedly written to a judge 2 days before her death, stating that her husband had threatened her and she feared him, where the defendant husband claimed she had threatened him
• court properly refused instruction on lesser included offense in tax evasion case because defendant could not be convicted of a crime for which the applicable statute had run
• memorandum opinion vacating conviction on one of several counts where Court of Appeals, having affirmed conviction on one of the other counts, had found it unnecessary to consider the count vacated by the Supreme Court
• statute of limitations limits state's power to act against accused

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