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SCREWS v. UNITED STATES

No. 10834.

140 F.2d 662 (1944)

SCREWS et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 18, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. F. Kemp and Clint W. Hager, both of Atlanta, Ga., and Robert B. Short, of Newton, Ga., for appellant.

T. Hoyt Davis, U. S. Atty., and John P. Cowart, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Macon, Ga., and G. Maynard Smith, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, HOLMES, and WALLER, Circuit Judges.

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants were indicted, tried, and convicted, for an alleged violation of Sec. 20 of the Criminal Code, being Sec. 52, of Title 18 U.S.C.A., and for a conspiracy to violate said Sec. 52 of Title 18. It was alleged that the appellant Screws, while sheriff of Baker County, Georgia, and appellant Jones, while acting as a policeman of the City of Newton, in Baker County, Georgia, both aided and abetted by appellant Kelley, did, under color of...

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