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MEEKS v. UNITED STATES

No. 11293.

163 F.2d 598 (1947)

MEEKS v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

September 12, 1947.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Paul, Jr., and M. G. Monagle, both of Juneau, Alaska, for appellant.

P. J. Gilmore, Jr., U. S. Atty., and Robert Boochever, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Juneau, Alaska, for appellee.

Ewart L. Merica and Stanley Walsh, both of San Francisco, Cal., amicus curiae.

Before DENMAN, STEPHENS and ORR, Circuit Judges.

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing appellant to life imprisonment on a charge of murder in the first degree. One Campbell was found dead in a ditch in Juneau, Alaska. His throat had been cut and some $2,000, principally in $100 bills, taken from him. Appellant was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced. On the questions hereafter discussed, we are indebted to Professors Merica and Walsh, amici curiae, for their able brief on behalf...

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