UNITED STATES v. EDMONDSON

No. 26628.

410 F.2d 670 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William B. EDMONDSON, Sr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 30, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morel Montgomery (Court-appointed), Fred Blanton, Jr., Birmingham, Ala. (Associate Counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Macon L. Weaver, U. S. Atty., R. Macey Taylor, J. Richmond Pearson, Asst. U. S. Attys., Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RIVES, BELL and DYER, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge:

Edmondson appeals from his conviction for perjury1 and raises questions of sufficiency of the indictment, sufficiency of the evidence, and validity of the court's charge to the jury. We affirm.

Edmondson was president of American Southern Publishing Company, a corporation headquartered in Northport, Alabama. In an apparent effort to bolster the credit rating of his company, Edmondson allegedly had stationery...

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