United States v. Parrott

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the testimony of a single witness is sufficient to support a conviction “even if it is contradicted by the accused”
• concluding, under similar circumstances, that the failure to declare the value of the stolen property did not prejudice the appellant
• stating that a conviction under section 2251 requires evidence that a defendant merely possessed a deadly weapon with intent to use it unlawfully, as opposed to actually using the weapon
• stating that it is error for the trial court to fail to require jurors to declare in the verdict the value of the stolen property in a case involving larceny or grand larceny
• rejecting argument that a list of deadly or dangerous weapons in a statute is exhaustive
• stating that a firearm is a deadly weapon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).