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· 7/23/1975

United States v. Benjamin Franklin Sauls

Citations

  • 520 F.2d 568
  • 1975 U.S. App. LEXIS 13542

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that failure of trial court to instruct jury spe- cifically on \`issue upon which there was no evidence before them'\ could not be regarded as prejudicial
  • requiring the instruction even when the defendant did not ask for it
  • failure to give instruction may be tested for harmless error

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Judges: Aldrich, Butzner, Russell

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