BELVIN v. UNITED STATES

No. 17500.

273 F.2d 583 (1960)

William BELVIN, James E. Clanton, Clifton Hawkins and Wallace Hawkins, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 5, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zach H. Douglas, Jacksonville, Fla., W. Fred Turner, Panama City, Fla., S. Gunter Toney, Tallahassee, Fla., for appellants.

F. E. Steinmeyer, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Wilfred C. Varn, U. S. Atty., Tallahassee, Fla., for appellee.

Before RIVES, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE and JONES, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from judgments of conviction upon five separate indictments, consolidated for trial, charging use of the mails,1 and of interstate telephones2 to defraud insurance companies by obtaining collision or liability insurance on automobiles and collecting on staged or faked automobile collisions.

The indictments name as the alleged victims the Virginia Mutual Insurance Co...

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