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POSEY v. UNITED STATES

No. 25654.

416 F.2d 545 (1969)

Billy Wayne POSEY, Cecil Ray Price, Horace Doyle Barnette, Jimmy Snowden, Jimmy Arledge, Alton Wayne Roberts and Sam Holloway Bowers, Jr., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied and Rehearing Denied August 28, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurel G. Weir, Herman Alfrod, W. Montgomery Mars, Clayton Lewis, Philadelphia, Miss., Dennis Goldman, H. C. Watkins, Billy R. Covington, Meridian, Miss., Travis Buckley, Bay Springs, Miss., for appellants.

Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., D. Robert Owen, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Merle W. Loper, Atty., Dep. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before BELL and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges, and MEHRTENS, District Judge.

Rehearing Denied and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 28, 1969.

MEHRTENS, District Judge:

After a trial on an indictment charging eighteen persons with violating 18 U.S.C. § 241 by conspiring to injure, threaten, oppress and intimidate Michael Schwerner, James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman in the free exercise of their Constitutional rights not to be deprived of life or liberty without due process of law, the...

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