UNITED STATES v. CAWTHON

No. 7024.

125 F.Supp. 419 (1954)

UNITED STATES of America, v. Warren Sanders CAWTHON, James B. White and Buel Lanier Trapnell.

United States District Court M. D. Georgia, Macon Division.

October 25, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank O. Evans, U. S. Atty., Floyd M. Buford, Jos. H. Davis, Asst. U. S. Attys., Macon, Ga., for the United States.

W. M. Redman, Jackson, Ga., Harris, Russell, Weaver & Watkins, Macon, Ga., H. D. Russell and T. Reese Watkins, Macon, Ga., of counsel, for defendants White and Trapnell.

Alfred D. Fears, Jackson, Ga., Martin, Snow & Grant, T. Baldwin Martin, Macon, Ga., of counsel, for defendant Cawthon.


DAVIS, Chief Judge.

The grand jury returned a seven-count indictment against the defendants, Warren Sanders Cawthon, James B. White, and Buel Lanier Trapnell.

Counsel for the defendants White and Trapnell filed on their behalf motions to dismiss the indictment in the case on the grounds of insufficiency. The motions came on for hearing and the Court heard extensive arguments by counsel for both sides.

The first count of the indictment is a conspiracy...

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