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SCHOPPEL v. UNITED STATES

No. 7866.

270 F.2d 413 (1959)

John Franklin SCHOPPEL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 9, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Cocke, Asheville, N. C., for appellant.

A. Andrew Giangreco and Henry St. J. FitzGerald, Asst. U. S. Attys., Alexandria, Va. (John M. Hollis, U. S. Atty., Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, SOPER, Circuit Judge, and THOMSEN, District Judge.

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

This appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and complains of rulings of the District Court and conduct of the United States Attorney in the course of the trial.

The appellant, Schoppel, and one Gomez, inmates of the District of Columbia Reformatory at Lorton, Virginia, were jointly indicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia under 18 U...

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