UNITED STATES v. SMITH

Nos. 77-5038 to 77-5046.

561 F.2d 8 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carlton L. "Corky" SMITH, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James Wayne BATES, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gary D. HILL, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gregory Charles HILL, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. C. Allen CHRISTOPHER et al., Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jim KEY, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Herb JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William WOODALL, Jr., Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John ULREY, a/k/a John Taliferro, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 26, 1977.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 10, 1977.

Certiorari Denied November 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Shannon Smith, Gilday, Jung & Gilday, Cincinnati, Ohio (court appointed), for defendant-appellant in No. 77-5038.

Charles H. Anderson, U. S. Atty., Lawrence Ray Whitley, Nashville, Tenn., for United States.

Charles R. Ray, Barrett, Brandt & Barrett, Nashville, Tenn. (court appointed), for defendant-appellant in No. 77-5039.

C. Douglas Thoresen, Nashville, Tenn. (court appointed), for defendant-appellant in No. 77-5040.

Clark H. Tidwell, Nashville, Tenn. (court appointed), for defendant-appellant in No. 77-5041.

G. Whitney Kemper, Kemper & Vance, Nashville, Tenn. (court appointed), for defendant-appellant in No. 77-5042.

Larry R. Williams, Dale, Thompson & Miles, Nashville, Tenn. (court appointed), for defendant-appellant in No. 77-5043.

William N. Fielden, Eichhorn, Fielden, Wetherbee & Coates, San Diego, Cal. (court appointed), for defendant-appellant in No. 77-5044.

Herb Johnson, pro se.

Henry A. Martin, Haile & Martin, Nashville, Tenn. (court appointed), for defendant-appellant in No. 77-5045.

Cleve O. Weathers, Nashville, Tenn. (court appointed), for defendant-appellant in No. 77-5046.

Before EDWARDS, CELEBREZZE and PECK, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 10, 1977.

CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.

These appeals are the aftermath of an ambitious federal prosecution which put an unscrupulous commercial enterprise out of the business of bilking hundreds of would-be entrepreneurs across the country of millions of dollars. Five jointly controlled corporations, operating out of Nashville, Tennessee, and thirty of their officers and marketing employees were named in a fifty...

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