DUKE v. UNITED STATES

No. 15882.

233 F.2d 897 (1956)

T. Green DUKE, Doyle Willbanks, Edwin J. Waters, Curtis H. Fordham, Wesley Fiveash and Jule Rhoden, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 25, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. C. McDonald, Fitzgerald, Ga., Jack J. Gautier, Macon, Ga., O. T. Gower, Cordele, Ga., for appellants.

Floyd M. Buford, Asst. U. S. Atty., Frank O. Evans, U. S. Atty., Robert B. Thompson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Macon, Ga., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and CAMERON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Charged with, and convicted of, being a party to a widespread, far flung, and long lived conspiracy to violate the Internal Revenue laws, the defendants have appealed.

Here, urging three grounds of error,1 appellants attacking the twenty-two page indictment, with its fifty-eight proliferations in the form of overt acts, as a besom of wrath designed to sweep them to destruction and calculated, by joining...

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