UNITED STATES v. CALHOUN

No. 12244-12246.

257 F.2d 673 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph CALHOUN, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John CHILDRESS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

July 29, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard T. Savage, Frank W. Oliver, Chicago, Ill., for appellants.

Robert Tieken, U. S. Atty., Albert F. Manion, John Peter Lulinski, Asst. U. S. Attys., Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before FINNEGAN, SCHNACKENBERG and PARKINSON, Circuit Judges.


FINNEGAN, Circuit Judge.

The cold record as filed in our Court, on appeal from convictions in criminal cases, supplies the data for our opinions. Salvaging convictions for the government on the basis of margin evidence and conjecture is outside our reviewing function. These two appeals, by Calhoun and Childress, respectively are prime examples of narcotic trafficking, abhorrent to all decent citizens, but improperly handled at the accusatory and trial level when these...

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