UNITED STATES v. EDWARDS

No. 72-1778.

469 F.2d 1362 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Horace Lamar EDWARDS and Ronald Clifton, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 4, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Gibson, El Paso, Tex. (court appointed), Robert R. Bryan, co-counsel Birmingham, Ala., for defendants-appellants.

William S. Sessions, U. S. Atty., James E. Bock, James W. Kerr, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GEWIN, THORNBERRY and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Circuit Judge:

Horace Lamar Edwards and Ronald Clifton have been jointly tried on three separate occasions on charges arising from two armed robberies occurring at Biggs Field, Fort Bliss, Texas. At the initial trial, Clifton was convicted on two counts of armed robbery and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm on a military reservation.1 Edwards was convicted on one count of armed robbery and one firearm count. These convictions...

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