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ADAMS v. UNITED STATES

No. 18153.

287 F.2d 701 (1961)

Z. A. ADAMS and Jean Adams, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

March 7, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe J. Harrell and Jones & Harrell, Pensacola, Fla., for appellants.

Wilfred C. Varn, U. S. Atty., Tallahassee, Fla., for appellee.

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

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal raises the question whether a prior acquittal of a substantive charge insulates the defendant against a conviction for perjury committed on that trial.

Appellants, Z. A. and Jean Adams, husband and wife, were convicted of giving perjured testimony and suborning the perjury of others during an April 1958 trial of Z. A. on the charge of transporting and possessing moonshine...

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