UNITED STATES v. JOHNS

No. 79-5336 Summary Calendar.

615 F.2d 672 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gerald Richard JOHNS, Howard Seavey Webb, Mahlon W. Burchell, Joseph Ralph Stewart, Charles Randall Stewart, Thomas Aaron Smith, Arthur Dee Riley, William Eugene Massey, James Henry Bettis and Will Roger Reynolds, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 17, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Allen Parker, Tarrant, Ala. (court-appointed), for Johns.

Arthur J. Hanes, Birmingham, Ala., for Webb.

J. Louis Wilkinson, Birmingham, Ala., for Burchell, Webb, Bettis, Stewart, Stewart, Massey, Smith & Riley.

J. R. Brooks, U. S. Atty., Henry I. Frohsin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CHARLES CLARK, VANCE and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Gerald Richard Johns, Howard Seavey Webb, Mahlon W. Burchell, Joseph Ralph Stewart, Charles Randall Stewart, Thomas Aaron Smith, Arthur Dee Riley, William Eugene Massey, James Henry Bettis and Will Roger Reynolds are members or associates of the Ku Klux Klan. They were indicted and convicted on various criminal charges stemming from their attempts to interfere with the civil rights of whites and blacks in Sylacauga and Childersburg, Alabama. Their appeal...

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