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SMITH v. UNITED STATES

No. 18474.

284 F.2d 789 (1960)

Leroy Edward SMITH, Hubert Donald Smith and Rodger Winston Wagner, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 6, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Dailey, Dudley P. Andrews, Dallas, Tex., for appellants.

Minor Morgan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Dallas, Tex., W. B. West, III, U. S. Atty., Fort Worth, Tex., for appellee.

Before CAMERON and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and HANNAY, District Judge.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

Only two questions of any real seriousness emerge in this appeal from the mandatory 25-year sentences imposed after a jury verdict finding the three appellants guilty of postal robbery effected by putting in jeopardy the life of the postal employees. 18 U.S.C.A. § 2114.1 The Court-appointed counsel led by a veteran of the Criminal Bar "With great earnestness and a skill which presses out the very last...

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