GULF COAST SHRIMPERS & OYSTER. ASS'N v. UNITED STATES

No. 15680.

236 F.2d 658 (1956)

GULF COAST SHRIMPERS AND OYSTERMANS ASSOCIATION, Louis S. Simmons, Leon Strong and Walter McVeay, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

September 6, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Sidney Johnston, Jr., Howard A. McDonnell, Biloxi, Miss., C. Paul Barker, New Orleans, La., for appellants.

Earl E. Pollock, Daniel M. Friedman, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., George R. Blue, U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., Stanley N. Barnes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Henry M. Stuckey, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before RIVES, CAMERON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from judgments of conviction entered upon jury verdicts finding appellants guilty of engaging in a combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.1 The errors specified and argued relate mainly to the sufficiency of the indictment, the adequacy of the court's oral charge, the refusal of the court to give certain written instructions requested by...

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