UNITED STATES v. THOMPSON

No. 78-5400.

612 F.2d 233 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James McClellan THOMPSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided June 15, 1979.

On Rehearing January 15, 1980.

Rehearing Denied April 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Fortune, Federal Defender, Eldon L. Webb, Lexington, Ky., for defendant-appellant.

Patrick H. Molloy, U. S. Atty., Joseph L. Famularo, John A. West, Asst. U. S. Attys., Lexington, Ky., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CELEBREZZE, KEITH and MERRITT, Circuit Judges.


MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

On November 3, 1977, the defendant allegedly stole and slaughtered a "bull cow" from a neighbor's pasture in rural Bath County in the hills of eastern Kentucky. The next day his girl friend, with whom he had been living, told an officer of the Kentucky state police about the crime and also told the officer that the defendant kept an illegal sawed-off shotgun at his house trailer. A warrant was issued authorizing a search of the house trailer...

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