UNITED STATES v. BECK

Cr. No. 40000.

138 F.Supp. 756 (1956)

UNITED STATES of America v. Jerome C. BECK, James R. Stanford, John Wesley Jones, Ralph Harrington.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Brownsville Division.

Supplemental Opinion February 17, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Malcolm R. Wilkey, U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., Brian S. Odem, Asst. U. S. Atty., Brownsville, Tex., for plaintiff.

Harry Lewis, Brownsville, Tex., for defendants Beck, Stanford and Jones.

Charles C. Bowie, San Benito, Tex., for defendant Harrington.


ALLRED, District Judge.

Defendants are charged with smuggling ten "cartuchos" of marihuana (weighing approximately 8 ounces), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 545. Heretofore they were arraigned upon a prior indictment charging the same offense, to which Beck, Stanford and Jones entered a plea of not guilty and Harrington pled guilty. The court accepted Harrington's plea and the government thereupon dismissed as to Beck...

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