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UNITED STATES v. THOMPSON

No. 16832.

366 F.2d 167 (1966)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Charles Taylor THOMPSON, William Edward Tanner and James Benjamin Campbell, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

September 15, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Badgett, Knoxville, Tenn., for Thompson and Tanner, Tom Taylor, Athens, Tenn., on the brief.

W. P. Boone Dougherty, Knoxville, Tenn., for Campbell.

Charles J. Gearhiser, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellee, J. H. Reddy, U. S. Atty., Chattanooga, Tenn., on the brief.

Before O'SULLIVAN and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, and CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, who were members of the County Council of McMinn County, Tennessee, were found guilty by a jury of violating the general conspiracy statute, 18 U.S.C. § 371. The prosecution grew out of the solicitation and receipt by appellants of a $6,000 kickback from the architects on a county hospital project under the Hill-Burton Act, 42 U.S.C. § 291 et seq. Each of the three appellants was sentenced by the district judge, the Honorable...

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