UNITED STATES v. NIXON

No. 79-5509.

634 F.2d 306 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Franklin Eugene NIXON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Thomas Davis, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant-appellant.

James E. Fagan, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., John F. DePue, Atty., Appellate Sect., Crim. Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before COLEMAN, Chief Judge, RONEY and GARZA, Circuit Judges.


RONEY, Circuit Judge:

Four years after counterfeit charges were voluntarily dismissed in response to a speedy trial motion, Franklin Nixon was convicted of perjury in denying to a grand jury any complicity with the counterfeiting. He asserts this denied him his right to a speedy trial, the perjury being but an extension of the counterfeit charge. We disagree. Finding no reversible error in his other points on appeal, we affirm.

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