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UNITED STATES v. COCHRAN

No. 73-1820.

499 F.2d 380 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Reginald COCHRAN, William Ronald Watson, and William Robert Bland, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 25, 1974.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 7, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathaniel G. W. Pieper, Tampa, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Reginald Cochran.

Henry Gonzalez, Tampa, Fla., for William Ronald Watson.

Arnold Levine, Tampa, Fla., for William Robert Bland.

John L. Briggs, U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., Claude H. Tison, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Tampa, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before DYER and MORGAN, Circuit Judges, and KRAFT, District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 7, 1974.

DYER, Circuit Judge:

A flim-flam is a confidence game designed to fleece a victim through some fraud or trickery, in this case by a pretended sale of stolen gems at a bargain price. By a three-count indictment Reginald Cochran, Stanley Cochran (son of Reginald), Parker (an associate of the Cochrans), Bland (a Tampa police official), and Watson (a Tampa used-car lot owner) were charged with violations...

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