UNITED STATES v. PEREZ

No. 71-1066.

489 F.2d 51 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mayo PEREZ et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 2, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Mulla, Jr., New Orleans, La. (court-appointed), for Perez.

Douglass Culp, New Orleans, La. (court-appointed), for Trahan.

John P. Keegan, New Orleans, La. (court-appointed), for Prudhomme.

Milton P. Masinter, New Orleans, La. (court-appointed), for Evans.

F. Irvin Dymond, New Orleans, La., for Perego & Hennigan.

E. Howard McCaleb, III, New Orleans, La., (court-appointed), for DeVille.

Edward M. Baldwin, New Orleans, La., for Shaheen and Ernest C. Hamilton.

Russell J. Schonekas, New Orleans, La., for Tunis & Loridans.

Jerry A. Kirby, Monroe, La., for Loridans.

Dr. Wilson Morris, pro se.

Ernest C. Hamilton, pro se.

Daniel J. Markey, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., Mark Richard, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and GODBOLD and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 2, 1974.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

The facts of this case, in a purely legalistic sense, need no embellishment in a literary sense to classify this as a piece of prose that could well be called a second "American tragedy." It would be an American tragedy, not only because the events took place here,1 but because it is just another instance...

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