UNITED STATES v. CHANDLER

No. 77-5562.

586 F.2d 593 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis CHANDLER, Claude Wayne Cole, Robert Lee Folsom, Curtis Morrow, Alan Wayne Thompson, Duel Bowling, Dorman Chandler, Sam Alta Dryden, Jimmy Doyle Folsom, Clarence Newborn, Buren Robinson, Sammy Robinson, Travis Williams and James Richard George, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 12, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David E. Krisher, Atlanta, Ga., for Chandler.

P. Bruce Kirwan, Atlanta, Ga., for Cole.

Donald B. Howe, Jr., Tallapoosa, Ga., for Folsom.

Benjamin Lande, Atlanta, Ga. (Court-appointed), for Morrow.

Thomas C. Bianco, Atlanta, Ga. (Court-appointed), for Thompson.

Edward T. M. Garland, Atlanta, Ga., for Bowling, Dorman C. Dryden, Folsom, Newborn, Robinson, Robinson, Williams and George.

Jerome J. Froelich, Jr., William F. Bartee, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., William L. Harper, U. S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, TUTTLE and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

In December, 1976, a federal grand jury for the Northern District of Georgia indicted thirty-one individuals on nine counts charging conspiracy and substantive offenses for the theft, interstate transportation, and receipt of gasoline from interstate pipelines. This mammoth case concerned three illegal taps on interstate gasoline pipelines in the vicinity of Tallapoosa, Georgia. According to the government...

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