MURGIA v. UNITED STATES

No. 16811.

285 F.2d 14 (1960)

Paul Garcia MURGIA, Pedro Hernandez Ramirez and Joe Ramirez Carpio, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

December 9, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Gavin, San Diego, Cal., for appellants.

Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., Robert J. Jensen, George W. Kell, Timothy M. Thornton, Asst. U. S. Attys., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, BARNES and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges.


BARNES, Circuit Judge.

The three appellants herein were convicted by the court below, sitting without a jury, of a conspiracy to import heroin, 18 U.S.C. § 371, and the illegal importation of narcotics, 70 Stat. 570 (1956) 21 U.S.C.A. § 174. (Two counts.) Murgia and Ramirez (also known as Hernandez) were sentenced to concurrent ten year terms; Carpio to concurrent five year terms. Upon filing a timely appeal, each appellant was permitted to proceed in forma...

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