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MYERS v. UNITED STATES

No. 23847.

377 F.2d 412 (1967)

Cecil William MYERS and Joseph Howard Sims, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 19, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Hudson, Athens, Ga., for appellants.

Floyd M. Buford, U. S. Atty., Macon, Ga., St. John Barrett, Atty., Dept. of Justice, John Doar, Asst. Atty. Gen., David L. Norman, Alan G. Marer, Joel M. Finkelstein, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge, and FULTON, District Judge.

TUTTLE, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal from conviction and sentence of the appellants, Myers and Sims, to serve ten years imprisonment for violation of Title 18, U.S.C.A. Sec. 241,1 one of the basic civil rights criminal statutes.

These appellants, together with one Hampton Turner, were tried jointly for engaging in a conspiracy "to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate Negro citizens...

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