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UNITED STATES v. SIMS

Nos. 19798-19800.

430 F.2d 1089 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Horace W. SIMS, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ralph Howard FREEMAN, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Vester Lee PRICE, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

August 7, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Newman, Memphis, Tenn., for appellant Sims; Lucius E. Burch, Jr., Burch, Porter & Johnson, Memphis, Tenn., on brief.

Warner Hodges, (Court appointed) Memphis, Tenn., for appellants Freeman and Price.

William A. McTighe, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Memphis, Tenn., for appellee; Thomas F. Turley, Jr., U. S. Atty., Memphis, Tenn., on brief.

Before WEICK, McCREE and BROOKS, Circuit Judges.

BROOKS, Circuit Judge.

The defendant-appellants, Horace W. Sims, Vester Lee Price and Ralph Howard Freeman, appeal from their convictions for conspiracy and bribery of public officials in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 201. The conspiracy charged was to bribe cotton classers who were employed by the United States Department of Agriculture to "downgrade" certain government cotton which the defendant Sims would then purchase at less than its true market...

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