Watts v. United States

Decided 1976-07-28

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FICKLING, Associate Judge, with whom KELLY, Associate Judge, joins, dissenting: The majority holds today that the trial judge properly instructed the jury that It must return a guilty verdict if it found beyond a reasonable doubt that the appellant committed acts which constituted the essential elements of the crime charged. 1 I must respectfully disagree. In my view, this p…

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