HULETT

v.

SIGLER, WARDEN

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• United States v. L'Hoste, 609 F.2d 796 (5th Cir. 1980)
  …, we must remember that a trial court is given broad discretion in wording its jury instructions and will not be reversed as long as the charge correctly states the substance of the law. Cain v. United States, 274 F. 2d 598 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 362 U.S. 952, 80 S.Ct. 864, 4 L.Ed.2d 869 (1960). A trial judge is under no obligation to give a requested instruction that misstates the law, is argumentative, or has been covered adequately by other instructions. Pass v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 242 F. 2d…
• Benson v. United States, 332 F.2d 288 (5th Cir. 1964)
  …961, 366 U.S. 950, 81 S.Ct. 1904, 6 L. Ed.2d 1242; United States v. Lo Duca, 2 Cir., 1960, 274 F. 2d 57, 59; Lipscomb v. United States, 8 Cir., 1960, 273 F. 2d 860, 865; Costner v. United States, 6 Cir., 1959, 271 F. 2d 261, 263, cert. denied, 1960, 362 U.S. 952, 80 S.Ct. 866, 4 L.Ed. 2d 870; United States v. Williams, 3 Cir., 1958, 254 F. 2d 253, 255. These cases all involve either (1) a so-called “general sentence” under a multicount conviction which imposes a term less than could have been imposed on an…
• United States v. Blevins, 555 F.2d 1236 (5th Cir. 1977)
  …s an independent charge. As long as the combined charges accurately cover the point of law at issue, no reversible error exists. Windisch v. United States, 295 F. 2d 531 (5th Cir. 1961); Cain v. United States, 274 F. 2d 598 (5th Cir.), cert, denied, 362 U.S. 952, 80 S.Ct. 864, 4 L.Ed.2d 869 (1960); Lambert v. United States, 261 F. 2d 799 (5th Cir. 1958). In this instance the court was within the approved instructional boundaries on self-defense. While it would have been preferable for the trial judge again…