UNITED STATES v. TOWNSEND

No. 75-1401.

555 F.2d 152 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jonathan TOWNSEND, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 10, 1977.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied June 7, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. Constance, Belleville, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Henry A. Schwarz, U. S. Atty., Clifford J. Proud, Asst. U. S. Atty., East St. Louis, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SWYGERT and CUMMINGS, Circuit Judges, and WOLLENBERG, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 7, 1977.

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

After a jury trial, defendant was convicted on four counts of a six-count indictment1 charging firearm offenses occurring on January 24 and January 30, 1974, in violation of 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(c), 5861(d), 5821(a) and 5871. The firearms involved were two sawed-off shotguns, and he received five-year concurrent imprisonment sentences on the first...

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