UNITED STATES v. BRIGHT

No. 78-5472.

630 F.2d 804 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Louin Ray BRIGHT, C. E. "Jack" Briggs, Robert L. Harbin, Jr., Robert E. Harbin, Harvey Hamilton, John Harter and John Thomas "Bill" Chaney, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Mel Davis, Oxford, Miss. (Court-appointed), for Briggs.

Cecil M. Burglass, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Harbin & Harbin.

Robert G. Gilder, Southaven, Miss., for Hamilton and Harter.

Warner Hodges, Memphis, Tenn., for Chaney.

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

Before TUTTLE, VANCE and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.


KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge.

Harvey Hamilton was elected sheriff of DeSoto County, Mississippi in the 1975 general election. His campaign symbol was a white hat; he campaigned on a platform of honesty and integrity, pledging to "clean up" the county if elected. Nothing could have been further from his true intent or subsequent actions. From his taking office in January, 1976, to his indictment by a federal grand jury in late 1977, Hamilton ran the county as his own fiefdom...

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