UNITED STATES v. HEDGES

No. 71-1622.

458 F.2d 188 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard Wayne HEDGES, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 24, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Caenen, Shawnee Mission, Kan. (Richard W. Niederhauser, Mission, Kan., and H. Jackson Zinn, Shawnee Mission, on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Adrian M. Farver, Asst. U. S. Atty., Topeka, Kan. (Robert J. Roth, U. S. Atty., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HILL, BARRETT and DOYLE, Circuit Judges.


HILL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction by a jury in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas of violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1792, which prohibits the conveyance of dangerous instrumentalities into or within federal penal institutions, and 18 U.S.C. § 751, which prohibits escape from confinement in an institution under the direction of the United States Attorney General.

On October 5, 1970, a "lowboy" trailer truck...

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