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STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF TEXAS v. UNITED STATES

No. 18888.

307 F.2d 120 (1962)

STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF TEXAS and Pasotex Pipe Line Company, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 15, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. C. Hutcheson, III, Houston, Tex., Thomas S. Milam, Lubbock, Tex., Louis A. Scott, El Paso, Tex., of counsel, Scott, Hulse, Marshall & Feuille, El Paso, Tex., Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam, Lubbock, Tex., Moulton A. Goodrum, Houston, Tex., Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd, Houston, Tex., for appellants.

W. B. West, III, Barefoot Sanders, U. S. Attys., Fort Worth, Tex., for appellee.

Before JONES, BROWN and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal by two corporate defendants, from fines imposed on judgments of conviction under the Connally Hot Oil Act,1 raises this basic question. May a corporate employer be held liable for a crime committed by employees who, although ostensibly acting in the performance of their duties, were really cooperating with a third person in the accomplishment of a criminal purpose for the benefit of that third...

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