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UNITED STATES v. BELL

No. 71-2234.

457 F.2d 1231 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Fred Louis BELL and Charles Lavern Beasley, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leighton Cornett, Paris, Tex. (Court-appointed), for Fred Louis Bell.

John D. Hill, Sherman, Tex. (Court-appointed), for Charles Lavern Beasley.

Roby Hadden, U. S. Atty., Dale Long, Asst. U. S. Atty., Tyler, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BELL, DYER and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

CLARK, Circuit Judge:

This bizarre joint trial bank robbery case presents fourteen points of error from the gratuitous grant of a new trial on a motion for reduction of sentence, which one defendant still disclaims, to the admission of evidence of an airplane hijacking in Canada against the other. After unraveling this tangled web of human miscreance and judicial error, we conclude that this case must be affirmed in part...

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