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ACCARDI v. UNITED STATES

No. 16467.

257 F.2d 168 (1958)

Joseph Anthony ACCARDI, Stephen Morales and Herman John Doming, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 27, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin B. Gambill, Memphis, Tenn., Hilary J. Gaudin, Richard C. Baldwin, G. W. Gill, New Orleans, La., for appellants.

Jack C. Benjamin, Asst. U. S. Atty., M. Hepburn Many, U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before RIVES, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The question before us is whether the conviction of Joseph Anthony Accardi should be set aside on the ground that as a matter of law he was entrapped by government agents.

Accardi, Herman John Doming, Stephen (Steamboat) Morales, and Anthony Segro were indicted for conspiracy to acquire and transfer marihuana in violation of the law.1 Segro pleaded guilty; the other defendants went to trial. The issue...

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