UNITED STATES v. LeQUIRE

No. 28043 Summary Calendar.

424 F.2d 341 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Eugene Joseph LeQUIRE and Roger Morris Thundershield, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 7, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben Hilbun, Jr. (court appointed), Starkville, Miss., for defendant-appellant LeQuire.

James P. Dean (court appointed), Corinth, Miss., for defendant-appellant Thundershield.

H. M. Ray, U. S. Atty., J. Murray Akers, Norman L. Gillespie, Asst. U. S. Attys., Oxford, Miss., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and MORGAN and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.


INGRAHAM, Circuit Judge.

Eugene LeQuire and Roger Thundershield appeal from a jury verdict finding them guilty as codefendants of a violation of the Dyer Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2312. LeQuire was sentenced to serve three years, and Thundershield to serve four years, under the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 4208(a) (2). The only issue on appeal is whether certain inculpatory statements made by them to a Mississippi highway patrolman and to an F.B.I. agent were admissible...

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