RAY v. UNITED STATES

No. 7583.

255 F.2d 473 (1958)

Lonnie RAY and James William Leasure, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 24, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Raymond Gordon, Charleston, W. Va., for appellants.

Percy H. Brown, Asst. U. S. Atty., Charleston, W. Va. (Duncan W. Daugherty, U. S. Atty., Huntington, W. Va., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

Defendants were indicted for removing and concealing contraband whiskey and for aiding and abetting such removal and concealment. James Leasure entered a plea of guilty and Lonnie Ray, pleading not guilty, was found guilty by a jury after a trial.1

On February 22, 1957, an agent of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Treasury Department, travelling from Fayetteville to Beckley, West Virginia,...

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