UNITED STATES v. WILKINSON

No. 78-5233.

601 F.2d 791 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas Hugh WILKINSON and Broadus Vanlandingham Stewart, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 27, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. C. James, Samuel H. Wilkins, Barbara Raley, Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellants.

Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., James B. Tucker, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, GOLDBERG and VANCE, Circuit Judges.


VANCE, Circuit Judge:

Thomas Hugh Wilkinson and Broadus Vanlandingham Stewart are Mississippi gamblers whose luck ran out. Wilkinson, Stewart, and eleven codefendants were indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts stemming from their gaming activities. In the first count of the indictment, defendants were charged with conspiring to conduct an illegal gambling business in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 and 18 U.S.C. § 19551

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