UNITED STATES v. WHITE

No. 74-3281.

524 F.2d 1249 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Howard Lee WHITE, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 9, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor R. Arditti, El Paso, Tex. (Court appointed), for defendant-appellant.

William S. Sessions, U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., Ronald Ederer, William B. Hardie, Asst. U. S. Attys., El Paso, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TUTTLE, THORNBERRY and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges.


COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Howard Lee White, is a man to be pitied. Born in 1929, he finished the third grade of regular school, the fifth grade in reform school, and went to about the tenth grade in other prison schools. At his trial on July 30, 1974, he testified that for various offenses, none of them violent crimes, he had spent twenty nine years in prison. He was then 45 years old.

In the instant case, White was convicted on four counts of...

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