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UNITED STATES v. GARCIA

No. 83-2184 Summary Calendar.

719 F.2d 99 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Amelia GARCIA and Teresa Aleman Briones, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied November 21, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nelson R. Sharpe, Kingsville, Tex., for Garcia.

Baldemar Gutierrez, Alice, Tex., for Briones.

James R. Gough, Jack Lamar Wolfe, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, TATE and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

TATE, Circuit Judge:

The defendants Garcia and Briones were convicted after a jury trial on three counts of vote-buying and one count of conspiracy to buy votes in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1973i(c).1 In their appeal from these convictions, the defendants raise three contentions: (1) that the terms "pay", "payment" and "offer to pay", as used in the statute, are unconstitutionally vague if construed to include the offer and issuance...

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