UNITED STATES v. DAVIS

No. 76-4504.

583 F.2d 190 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sterling Blake DAVIS, Sr., and William McCoy Hill, a/k/a Mike Hill, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 3, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe S. Petsch, Del Rio, Tex. (Court-appointed), for Davis.

Gerald H. Goldstein, San Antonio, Tex., Edward A. Mallett, Houston, Tex., for Hill.

Sterling Blake Davis, Sr., pro se.

Jamie C. Boyd, U. S. Atty., LeRoy Morgan Jahn, W. Ray Jahn, Asst. U. S. Attys., San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, GODBOLD and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This case arises from an international raid of some notoriety in which Sterling Davis, Sr.'s son and other American prisoners were freed from a Mexican jail by armed persons who crossed into Mexico from the United States. Both Sterling Davis, Sr. ("Davis") and William Hill were convicted of conspiracy to export a weapon on the Munitions List without an export license or written approval from the State Department, in violation of 22 U...

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