UNITED STATES v. MAGANA-AREVALO

No. 80-1866 Summary Calendar.

639 F.2d 226 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Francisco Jose MAGANA-AREVALO, aka: Ricardo Ernesto Martinez-Hernandez, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A.

March 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lucien B. Campbell, Federal Public Defender, W. D. Texas, San Antonio, Tex., Herbert E. Cooper, Asst. Federal Public Defender, El Paso, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

Jamie C. Boyd, U. S. Atty., LeRoy Morgan Jahn, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CHARLES CLARK, REAVLEY and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge:

After a trial by jury, Francisco Jose Magana-Arevalo was convicted on six counts of unlawfully transporting illegal aliens within the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2). He appeals his convictions, raising claims of insufficiency of evidence, prejudicial pre-trial publicity, and improper prosecutorial comment. We affirm.

In reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence, we must view all the evidence, direct and...

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