UNITED STATES v. SHELTON

Nos. 79-2101, 79-2102, 79-2103, 79-2104 and 79-2157.

669 F.2d 446 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lewis F. SHELTON, James Darrough, John Derry, Donald Burks, and Carl Bledsoe, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

January 21, 1982.

Certiorari Denied April 19, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Hollis, Bruce D. Locher, Marilyn J. Schroeder, Springfield, Ill., Giles A. Franklin, Chicago, Ill., John R. Martin, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellants.

Thomas W. Turner, Asst. U. S. Atty., Springfield, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SPRECHER and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges and WILL, Senior District Judge.


Certiorari Denied April 19, 1982. See 102 S.Ct. 1989.

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.**

The five defendants1 involved in these criminal appeals were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and 77 substantive counts of mail fraud arising out of the establishment of a farmers cooperative in southern Illinois. Defendants Derry, Shelton and Darrough were also indicted for income tax...

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