JACKSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 20243.

319 F.2d 782 (1963)

Lloyd Hartley JACKSON and John Ernest Lucas, Jr., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 3, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Dickson, Foy Clement, Abilene, for appellants.

T. Gary Cole, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Fort Worth, Tex., Barefoot Sanders, U. S. Atty., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, GEWIN and BELL, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment in the trial court by the defendants who were found guilty of unlawfully and knowingly possessing a firearm, as defined by Title 26, U.S.C. Sec. 5848(1), and sentenced to imprisonment for a period of five years.

The pertinent facts are as follows: Patrolman Bill Parton of Eastland, Texas, saw a 1955 or 1956 bronze Pontiac hardtop leave the vicinity of a phone booth and head for Cisco, Texas. He...

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