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UNITED STATES v. BRIGHT

No. 78-5184.

588 F.2d 504 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Louin Ray BRIGHT and Edward Lee Whitten, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 26, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Farese, Ashland, Miss. (Court-appointed), for Bright.

Robert W. Elliott, Ripley, Miss., for Whitten.

H. M. Ray, U. S. Atty., Thomas W. Dawson, Alfred E. Moreton, III, Asst. U. S. Attys., Oxford, Miss., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before THORNBERRY, AINSWORTH and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

Edgar Lee Whitten and Louin Ray Bright1 appeal their convictions for mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 22 and 1341.3 Both appellants challenge the sufficiency of the evidence and attack the district court's supplemental instructions to the jury; Whitten also contends that the trial judge erred in allowing the Government to conduct prejudicial cross...

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