UNITED STATES v. MASSIAH

No. 186, Docket 27125.

307 F.2d 62 (1962)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Winston MASSIAH, Mitchell Anfield, Leonard Royal Aiken and Icky Thorn, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided July 27, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Carluccio, New York City, for Winston Massiah, appellant.

Lewis A. Stern, New York City, for Mitchell Anfield, appellant.

Carson DeWitt Baker and Edward Cherney, New York City, for Leonard Royal Aiken, appellant.

Thorn, appellant, pro se.

Sheldon H. Elsen, Asst. U. S. Atty., Southern Dist. of New York, New York, New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., James G. Starkey, David Klingsberg, Peter K. Leisure and Arnold N. Enker, Asst. U. S. Attys., on the brief), for appellee.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and WATERMAN and HAYS, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Chief Judge.

Winston Massiah, Mitchell Anfield, Leonard Royal Aiken and Icky Thorn appeal from their convictions, after an eleven-day trial before a jury in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, for conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States in violation of 21 U.S.C.A. §§ 173 and 174. Massiah also appeals from his conviction on three related charges: unlawful possession of cocaine on May 6, 1958 on the S.S. Santa Maria...

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