UNITED STATES v. WILLIAMS

No. 14166.

203 F.2d 572 (1953)

UNITED STATES v. WILLIAMS et al.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 30, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradford F. Miller, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Charles F. Herring, U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for appellant.

Archie S. Brown, Leonard Brown and Louis W. Schlesinger, San Antonio, Tex., H. M. Bellinger, San Antonio, Tex., for appellee Noral Williams.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and HOLMES and RIVES, Circuit Judges.


HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

The federal statute of jeofails, R.S. 1025, 18 U.S.C. § 556, was repealed by section 21 of the New Criminal Code that became effective on September 1, 1948. A similar remedial statute, 28 U.S.C. § 391, second sentence, directed to appellate federal courts, was repealed by section 39 of the Judicial Code that became effective on September 1, 1948. Rule 52(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S.C., preserved the law as...

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