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· 7/1/1839

United States v. Osgood

Citations

  • 27 F. Cas. 362

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that although a witness’ testimony is undermined, the testimony is not rendered entirely unbelievable
  • finding no ground to reverse defendant’s conviction based on jury instruction given by the trial court, where the court’s instruction “covered the substance of the [defendant’s] requested instruction”
  • no error where “the trial court’s instruction used different language, [but] it covered the substance of the requested instruction”
  • sufficient evidence where the appellant fired out of his car window at another vehicle
  • “The jury is entitled to draw certain inferences from the evidence presented before them.”
  • in a criminal case, a written judgment embodying the adjudication of guilt and the sentence imposed based on that adjudication constitutes a final judgment for purposes of 4 V.I.C. § 32(a)

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Judges: Betts

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