Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

United States v. Continental Can Co.

United States v. Cont’l Can Co., 375 U.S. 893 (1963)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1963-10-28
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • holding that an individual’s pointing to a written list fell within the hearsay rule, since this act was “as much a communication as a statement that ‘This is a list of the names and numbers of the salesmen’ ” implicated in the securities fraud case would have been
  • pointing of finger held to be a statement for purposes of hearsay rule

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Probable jurisdiction noted.