IN RE UNITED STATES

No. 5755, Original.

286 F.2d 556 (1961)

In the Matter of UNITED STATES of America, Petitioner,

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

February 2, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliot L. Richardson, U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., with whom George C. Caner, Jr., and Joseph S. Mitchell, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys. were on brief, for petitioner.

James D. St. Clair, Boston, Mass., with whom Blair L. Perry and Hale & Dorr, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for Standard Coil Products Co., Inc., intervenor.

Samuel E. Angoff, Boston, Mass., with whom Grant, Angoff, Goldman & Manning, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for Robert Knupp and Fong Foo, intervenors.

Before WOODBURY, Chief Judge, and HARTIGAN and ALDRICH, Circuit Judges.


WOODBURY, Chief Judge.

This is a petition by the United States for a writ of mandamus directing a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and also that District Court, to vacate a "Judgment of Acquittal" entered by the judge in a criminal case, to reassign the case for trial, and for such other and further relief as this court may deem just.

A grand jury in the court below returned an indictment in nine counts against Standard...

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