United States v. Robert L. Grapp and William Kenneth Thatcher

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• affirming conviction where evidence showed the mailing in “the middle of 1977” and indictment alleged mailing “on or about May 27, 1977”
• declining to consider a hearsay exception as a basis for the admissibility of evidence where the argument was not presented to the trial court
• denial of severance proper when defendant merely speculated that codefendant more willing to give exculpatory testimony at *Page 1380 separate trial
• “Reversible error occurs when there is an evidentiary foundation for the defense and the defense would be legally sufficient to warrant an acquittal if believed by the jury.”
• con- cluding no variance existed where the indictment alleged May 27, 1977, but the trial evidence reflected “the middle of 1977”
• “Reversible error occurs when there is an evidentiary foundation for the defense and the defense would be legally sufficient to warrant an acquittal if believed by the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).