COCHRAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 14723.

212 F.2d 511 (1954)

COCHRAN et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 22, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank F. Mize, Osborn G. Idom, Forest, Miss., for appellants.

Joseph E. Brown, U. S. Atty., and Robert E. Hauberg, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., for appellee.

Before BORAH and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

Appellants were charged and convicted, along with five others, in the court below of the offense of conspiring to violate Sections 2553(a) and 2554(a) of Title 26, United States Code by possessing and dealing in narcotics. Some, in addition to conspiracy, were charged with substantive offenses. The two appellants, John Morgan Cochran and Claude Collins, together with Percy Leroy Ratcliff, were each convicted of conspiracy alone, and filed...

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