ROE v. UNITED STATES

No. 18162.

287 F.2d 435 (1961)

D. H. ROE and Stratoray Oil, Inc., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 23, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. C. Pannell, Leo Brewster, Fort Worth, Tex., for appellants.

W. B. West, III, U. S. Atty., Robert S. Travis, Asst. U. S. Atty., Fort Worth, Tex., for appellee.

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


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

As this case percolates to us, it is but a bare shadow of its former self in the trial court. There it was a multi-party, multi-count indictment against Roe individually, the corporation, Stratoray Oil Company, Inc. of which Roe was President, and another, an advertising writer. At the heart of this case as the jury heard the evidence for many, many days was a high-pitched, hard-sell extravagant solicitation campaign to sell through the...

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