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UNITED STATES v. STIFEL

No. 19958.

433 F.2d 431 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Orville E. STIFEL, II, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

October 29, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Hopkins, Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellant.

Harry E. Pickering, Cleveland, Ohio, for appellee; Robert B. Krupansky, U. S. Atty., Harry E. Pickering, Asst. U. S. Atty., Cleveland, Ohio, on brief.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, EDWARDS and McCREE, Circuit Judges.

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

This is a strange and disturbing case. Appellant Orville Stifel, was indicted for violating 18 U.S.C. § 1716 (1964), by murdering another young man, Dan Ronec, by sending him a bomb (an "infernal machine") through the United States mails. The bomb exploded when Ronec opened the package containing it. Stifel had previously been known in the community in which he lived as something approaching a model young man.

Stifel was convicted...

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