UNITED STATES v. WINSTEAD

No. 82-5251.

708 F.2d 925 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Lewis Daniel WINSTEAD, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wade M. Smith, Raleigh, N.C. (Douglas E. Kingsbery, Tharrington, Smith & Hargrove, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appellant.

Robert H. Edmunds, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Greensboro, N.C. (Kenneth W. McAllister, U.S. Atty., Greensboro, N.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before WIDENER and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, and HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge.


WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

Defendant Daniel Winstead was convicted on two counts of aiding and abetting in the false identification and marketing of flue-cured tobacco, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 1001. He has appealed the conviction on the ground that the government failed to produce sufficient evidence to support the verdict. We agree and therefore reverse the conviction.

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This case arises out of an investigation conducted in 1981...

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