BUCKELEW v. UNITED STATES

No. 77-2405.

575 F.2d 515 (1978)

Raymond L. BUCKELEW and James Laney Jenkins, Petitioners-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee. Judson Lee DRANE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 19, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. W. Laster, James F. Lane, Little Rock, Ark., for petitioners-appellants.

Edward L. Shaheen, U.S. Atty., Dosite H. Perkins, Jr., First Asst. Atty., Joseph S. Cage, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., for respondent-appellee.

Before MORGAN and GEE, Circuit Judges, and KING, District Judge.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Appellants Buckelew and Jenkins were convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 1343 of using interstate telephone facilities in carrying out a scheme to defraud certain hotel casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada. They were also convicted of conspiring to violate section 1343, as was Judson Drane, whose appeal has been consolidated with theirs.

All three appellants petitioned the district court to set aside their sentences under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, alleging...

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