UNITED STATES v. O'DELL

Nos. 71-1606 to 71-1610.

462 F.2d 224 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Tom O'DELL, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Arlie MURR, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. D. C. RAMSEY, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Junior HICKS, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Glen SHOEMAKER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

June 16, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale Quillen, Nashville, Tenn. (Court-appointed), for appellants Arlie Murr, D. C. Ramsey, Junior Hicks and Glen Shoemaker.

John F. Dugger, Ben W. Hooper, II, Newport, Tenn., on brief, for appellant O'Dell.

W. Thomas Dillard, Jerry Foster, Chattanooga, Tenn., John L. Bowers, Jr., U. S. Atty. (Eastern Dist. of Tenn.), Carl P. McDonald, Asst. U. S. Atty., Knoxville, Tenn., Jerry Foster, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chattanooga, Tenn., on brief, for appellee.

Before CELEBREZZE and PECK, Circuit Judges, and O'SULLIVAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.

In an indictment handed up in August, 1970, a federal grand jury charged seven Cocke County, Tennessee law enforcement officials,1 a private bail bondsman and "other persons to the Grand Jury unknown" with participation in a scheme designed to pervert the workings of justice in Cocke County and to make the criminal law of Tennessee a source of personal gain for those who administered it. The net effect of such...

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