UNITED STATES v. WESSON

No. 72-1767.

478 F.2d 1180 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John WESSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 3, 1973.

Rehearing Denied May 24, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Laurence Anderson, Jr., and Alton L. Gill, Jr., Gary, Ind., for defendant-appellant.

William C. Lee, U. S. Atty., Fort Wayne, Ind., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PELL and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


WILLIAM J. CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.

Following a jury trial in the Northern District of Indiana, the defendant John Wesson was convicted of perjury before a grand jury in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1621. Defendant appeals, raising four grounds of claimed error. We affirm.

The defendant first maintains that the questions asked of him during his appearance before the grand jury did not constitute "material matter" in the federal grand jury proceedings...

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