United States v. Edward Bernard Billue

How courts have described this case

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• sustaining conviction for possession of a firearm even in the absence of confession where pawn shop owner could not remember if convicted felon brought in the firearm in question, nor did he see him hold or touch it, but the felon signed the sale form to the pawn shop
• “The trial court has authority to refuse to instruct the jury on a defense where the evidence used to support it, if believed, fails to establish a legally cognizable defense”
• refusal to instruct jury upheld

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).