UNITED STATES v. DEBROW

Nos. 14087, 14088, 14089, 14090 and 14091.

203 F.2d 699 (1953)

UNITED STATES v. DEBROW. UNITED STATES v. WILKINSON. UNITED STATES v. BRASHIER. UNITED STATES v. ROGERS. UNITED STATES v. JACKSON.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Writ of Certiorari Granted June 15, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben Brooks, Special Asst. to Atty. Gen., Joseph E. Brown, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., James M. McInerney, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert E. Hauberg, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Felicia H. Dubrovsky, Atty., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

No. 14087:

Ben F. Cameron, Meridian, Miss., E. B. Todd, Jackson, Miss., for Henry Debrow.

No. 14088:

Ben F. Cameron, Meridian, Miss., Allan T. Edwards, Jackson, Miss., for James H. Wilkinson.

No. 14089:

Ben F. Cameron, Meridian, Miss., J. Ed. Franklin, Jackson, Miss., for Roy F. Brashier.

No. 14090:

Ben F. Cameron, Meridian, Miss., Bidwell Adam, Gulfport, Miss., Albert Sidney Johnston, Jr., Biloxi, Miss., for Curtis Rogers.

No. 14091:

Ben F. Cameron, Meridian, Miss., J. Will Young and Will S. Wells, Jackson, Miss., for Forrest B. Jackson.

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


Writ of Certiorari Granted June 15, 1953. See 73 S.Ct. 1134.

BORAH, Circuit Judge.

These five appeals are in separate but common cases in each of which the District Court sustained a motion to dismiss the indictment for reason of its failure to set forth all of the essential elements of the crime of perjury charged. They will be covered by one opinion as they have most matters in common.

On July 19, 1951, separate indictments were returned against...

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