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ZAVALA v. UNITED STATES

No. 17077.

256 F.2d 164 (1958)

Elias Gomez ZAVALA, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 7, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phil B. Foster, Del Rio, Tex., for appellant.

Russell B. Wine, U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., Robert S. Pine, James E. Hammond, Asst. U. S. Attys., El Paso, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Found guilty by the jury on two counts of an indictment charging him, in count one with knowingly smuggling into the United States 66 pounds of marihuana, and in count two with concealing and transporting the same marihuana, knowing it to have been imported contrary to law, defendant was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

Appealing from the judgment, defendant is here assigning two grounds1

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