UNITED STATES v. SMITH

Nos. 20651, 20652.

441 F.2d 608 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Hargus SMITH, Jr., Carl Andrew Hughes, and Walter Roscoe Mullins, Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Walter Roscoe MULLINS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

April 30, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Graddy Johnson (court appointed), Lexington, Ky., for appellants Smith and Hughes.

W. Thomas Bunch (court appointed), Lexington, Ky., for appellant Mullins.

Robert E. Rawlins, Asst. U. S. Atty., Lexington, Ky., for appellee; Eugene E. Siler, Jr., U. S. Atty., Lexington, Ky., on brief.

Before WEICK and EDWARDS, Circuit Judges, and O'SULLIVAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Appellants and one Richardson were charged in a four-count indictment with the theft of letters from rural mailboxes and the possession of Social Security checks which were stolen therefrom, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1708. Richardson pleaded guilty. Appellants were convicted by a jury and sentenced to three years' imprisonment on each count, to be served concurrently.

Because of previous complaints of mail theft, Detectives Kitchen and Arnett...

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