WASHINGTON
v.
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON
UNITED STATES
357 U.S. 348
Supreme Court of the United States (1958)
Caution
Cited by 4 cases
Per_curiam
Per Curiam.
The petition for writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is reversed because of the insufficiency of the evidence and the case is remanded to that Court.
Mr. Justice Burton, Mr. Justice Clark, and Mr. Justice Whittaker dissent.
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Carr v. United States, 317 F.2d 409 (9th Cir. 1963)…stimony; and not to its admissibility. As counsel admits, the identification testimony was probative but not conclusive without extrinsic evidence. The one case cited by appellant is United States v. Washington, 7 Cir., 253 F. 2d 913, 915, reversed, 357 U.S. 348, 78 S.Ct. 1373, 2 L.Ed.2d 1368. It is one of the few examples of an appellate court reversing precisely on the insufficiency of the evidence. What the Supreme Court actually reversed on, in our opinion was a total lack of credible evidence against t…1 / 2