JONES v. UNITED STATES

No. 17485.

327 F.2d 867 (1963)

Willie JONES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 13, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James J. Laughlin, Washington, D. C., for appellant. Mr. Albert J. Ahern, Jr., Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellant.

Mr. Barry Sidman, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker and Joseph A. Lowther, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WILBUR K. MILLER, FAHY, WASHINGTON, DANAHER, BASTIAN, BURGER, WRIGHT and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.


DANAHER, Circuit Judge, with whom WILBUR K. MILLER, WASHINGTON, BASTIAN, BURGER and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges, join:

A jury on April 25, 1959 found Jones guilty of assault with intent to kill one Alma Jordan, and of murder in the first degree in that he had shot to death one Reginald L. Winters as the latter sat at the woman's bedside in a local hospital. On appeal, this court, sua sponte, ordered1 hearing en banc. We unanimously...

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