YATES v. UNITED STATES

No. 13527.

227 F.2d 844 (1955)

Oleta O'Connor YATES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

July 26, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margolis, McTernan & Branton, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Gladstein, Andersen & Leonard, San Francisco, Cal., Robert W. Kenny, Daniel Marshall, Los Angeles, Cal., amici curiae.

Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., Norman W. Neukom, Los Angeles, Cal., Lawrence K. Bailey, Washington, D. C., Ray H. Kinnison, Assts. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, FEE and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges.


JAMES ALGER FEE, Circuit Judge.

Oleta O'Connor Yates was one of those indicted and on trial as a defendant on a charge of conspiracy to violate the Smith Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 2385. After the close of the government case, all of the defendants rested except four, of whom Mrs. Yates was one. She was the only defendant there who testified. Yates v. United States, 9 Cir., 225 F.2d 146. Upon cross-examination she refused to answer any...

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