GOV'T OF CANAL ZONE v. THRUSH G. (GARCES)

No. 78-5767. Summary Calendar.

603 F.2d 1118 (1979)

GOVERNMENT OF the CANAL ZONE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Norma Clotilde THRUSH G. (GARCES) and Dorothy Gartlan, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 13, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel D. Douglass, Balboa, Canal Zone, Wolff & Gora, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Frank J. Violanti, U.S. Atty., Wallace D. Baldwin, Asst. U.S. Atty., Balboa, Canal Zone, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CLARK, GEE and HILL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Appellants are former employees of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service of the Canal Zone, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Exchange, an agency of the United States Government, in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 371. They now urge reversal of the convictions on the following grounds: (1) the trial court failed to instruct the jury that under C.Z. Code tit. 6, § 42(a) "[a] conviction can not be had on the testimony of an accomplice unless...

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