UNITED STATES V. RHODES
Trial by Court Martial, Fort McNair, D.C. (1958)
NATURE OF THE CASE: This was a dispute over hearsay evidence in an espionage trial.
Rhodes (D) petitioned for a new trial and assignment of errors after he was convicted and
sentenced to confinement for five years by a court of general court martial on charges of
conspiracy to violate the espionage laws.
FACTS: Rhodes (D) was accused of espionage and two of D's alleged coconspirators were Col
Rudolph Ivanovich Abel and Lt. Col. Reino Hayhanen of the Soviet Secret Police. The evidence
showed that Abel had transmitted to Hayhanen written information about D whose code name was
Quebec. The information was hidden in a hollowed out bolt and found in the home of Hayhanen
in Peekskill, New York. The information found was offered as evidence during D's court
martial and D objected to on grounds of hearsay.
ISSUE:
RULE OF LAW:
HOLDING AND DECISION:
LEGAL ANALYSIS:
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