SEMEL v. UNITED STATES

No. 11742.

158 F.2d 229 (1946)

SEMEL et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 18, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Lawrence, of Washington, D. C., and Louis Halle, of New York City, Jacob H. Morrison, of New Orleans, La., and Harvey G. Fields, of Farmerville, La., for petitioners.

Malcolm E. Lafargue, U. S. Atty., of Shreveport, La., for respondent.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON and McCORD, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

This case presents questions of the application of the new Rules of Criminal Procedure in federal courts, which became effective in March, 1946, to an indictment returned in October, 1945, and to the review in this court of a refusal on June 26, 1946, by the district judge to transfer the case for trial to the District Court for the Southern District of New York under Rule 21(b).1

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