UNITED STATES v. COOK

No. 76-3075.

557 F.2d 1149 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William Robert COOK and Charles Stafford Jackson, a/k/a Cal Stewart, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emmett Colvin, Gary D. Jackson, Dallas, Tex., for Cook.

Ralph J. Blagg, Texarkana, Tex., for Cook on bail application only.

Allen Moore, Odessa, Tex., (Court-appointed), for Jackson.

John E. Clark, U. S. Atty., LeRoy Morgan Jahn, Wayne F. Speck, Asst. U. S. Attys., San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CLARK and GEE, Circuit Judges, and MARKEY, Chief Judge.


MARKEY, Chief Judge:

Defendants (Cook and Jackson) were indicted on September 23, 1975, by a federal grand jury of the Western District of Texas on seventeen counts of violating the federal mail fraud statute. 18 U.S.C. § 1341.1 At the trial, which took place from May 4 to May 12, 1976, the district court granted defendants' motions for judgment of acquittal as to counts 10 and 11 of the...

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