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UNITED STATES v. DOWDEN

Crim. A. No. 14098.

139 F.Supp. 781 (1956)

UNITED STATES of America v. Alvin DOWDEN.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.

April 5, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Fitzhugh Wilson, U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., Q. L. Stewart, Asst. U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., for the government.

Watson & Williams, Natchitoches, La., for defendant.

DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.

A tiny tempest in a tinier teapot has brought forth here all the ponderous powers of the Federal Government, mounted on a Clydesdale in hot pursuit of a private citizen who shot a full-grown deer in a National Forest.

Not content with embarrassing defendant by this prosecution, and putting him to the not inconsiderable expense of employing counsel, the Government has compounded calumny...

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