UNITED STATES v. HARRIS

No. 71-1104.

453 F.2d 857 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Ulysses HARRIS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

December 29, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel P. Reardon, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Daniel Bartlett, Jr., U.S. Atty., Harry L. Strachan, Sp. Atty., Dept. of Justice, St. Louis, Mo., and Roger A. Pauley and Peter A. Chapin, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for appellee.

Before GIBSON, BRIGHT and ROSS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from the conviction of Ulysses Harris under a single count indictment charging him with willfully and knowingly possessing "a firearm, a J. C. Higgins 16 gauge shotgun, after having been convicted of a felony by a court of the United States." We reverse the judgment of conviction.

Agents of the U.S. Treasury Department went to the home of Harris on September 1, 1970, to question Harris concerning the purchase of .32 caliber pistol...

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