COPPEDGE v. UNITED STATES

No. 14935.

272 F.2d 504 (1959)

Mark COPPEDGE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James C. McKay, Washington, D. C. (appointed by the District Court), with whom Mr. William H. Greer, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Edward C. O'Connell, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Mr. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., and Mr. Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before PRETTYMAN, Chief Judge, and WASHINGTON and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.


PRETTYMAN, Chief Judge.

Appellant Coppedge was indicted on sixteen counts, which involved breaking into a pharmacy and taking some property, including a check-writer and a batch of blank money orders, and thereafter filling in, forging, and cashing some of the money orders. Four other persons were charged in the same indictment; three of them pleaded guilty, and one was acquitted. Coppedge was convicted on ten counts. The point here on appeal revolves about the following...

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