UNITED STATES v. BILLINGSLEY

No. 72-1645.

474 F.2d 63 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jack BILLINGSLEY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

February 21, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivan E. Barris, Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellant.

James W. Russell, Asst. U. S. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee; Ralph B. Guy, Jr., U. S. Atty., Flint, Mich., on brief.

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


PECK, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was tried before a jury and convicted of a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951, known as the Hobbs Act, which amended the Anti-Racketeering Act, for forcing the hiring of unwanted and superfluous workers by threatening a work stoppage. The case arose from an incident growing out of the construction of a warehouse in Flint, Michigan, to be built directly under some high tension lines which ran perpendicular to the length of the warehouse...

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