DURHAM v. UNITED STATES

No. 15930.

234 F.2d 694 (1956)

Jesse Lee DURHAM, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 27, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. B. Wallace, Griffin, Ga., for appellant.

James W. Dorsey, U. S. Atty., John W. Stokes, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, CAMERON and JONES, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The appellant, Jesse Lee Durham, and his brother, Claude E. Durham, were convicted of possession of non-taxed liquor. 26 U.S.C.A. § 2803. Officers of the United States and of the State of Georgia had located and were watching a stash of whiskey in the woods of Pike County, Georgia. The brothers Durham, about seven o'clock on the evening of June 10, 1954, traveled in a pickup truck driven by the appellant to a spot on a roadway near the liquor cache...

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