Opinion · Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

United States v. Clemones

582 F.2d 1373

Type: Opinion
Court: Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: Federal
Date: 1978-11-06
Topic: general

PER CURIAM: The opinion is modified by deleting the following language (p. 1255): Once the existence of a conspiracy is shown only slight evidence is required to warrant submitting to the jury the question of a particular defendant’s membership. See, e. g., U. S. v. Baldarrama, 566 F.2d 560, 566 (CA5, 1978). The petitions for rehearing filed by Edward Raymond LeCompte, William Alonzo Johnson, Jr., Joseph Harold Johnson, Priscilla Scott and Mike.

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UNITED STATES v. CLEMONES,582 F.2d 1373(5th Cir. 1978)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, v. MIKE CLEMONES, PRISCILLA

SCOTT, CHARLES EVERETT COBURN, JR., JOSEPH HAROLD JOHNSON, AND WILLIAM

ALONZO JOHNSON, JR., DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, v. EDWARD RAYMOND LeCOMPTE AND

KATHY HATMAKER, DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES.

Nos. 76-3866, 76-3870.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 6, 1978.

Robert K. Finnell, Rome, Ga. (Court-appointed), for Clemones.

Harold N. Wollstein, Rome, Ga. (Court-appointed), for Scott and Joseph Harold Johnson.

John E. Sawhill, III, Rome, Ga. (Court-appointed), for Coburn.

W. Benjamin Ballenger, Summerville, Ga., for William A. Johnson, Jr.

A. Cecil Palmour, Summerville, Ga., Robert W. Ritchie, Knoxville, Tenn., for Hatmaker.

Bobby Lee Cook, Summerville, Ga., for LeCompte.

William L. Harper, U.S. Atty., James E. Baker, Asst. U.S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee in No. 76-3866.Page 1374

John W. Stokes, U.S. Atty., James E. Baker, Asst. U.S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant in No. 76-3870.

Appeals from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia; Albert J. Henderson, Jr., Chief Judge.

[1] ON PETITIONS FOR REHEARING AND PETITIONS FOR REHEARING EN BANC

[2] (Opinion 8/9/78, 5 Cir., 1978,577 F.2d 1247).

Before JONES, GODBOLD and GEE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

[3] The opinion is modified by deleting the following language (p. 1255):

Once the existence of a conspiracy is shown only slight evidence is required to warrant submitting to the jury the question of a particular defendant's membership.See, e. g., U.S. v. Baldarrama,566 F.2d 560,566(CA5, 1978).

[4] The petitions for rehearing filed by Edward Raymond LeCompte, William Alonzo Johnson, Jr., Joseph Harold Johnson, Priscilla Scott and Mike Clemones are DENIED, and no member of this panel nor Judge in regular active service on the Court having requested that the Court be polled on rehearing en banc, (Rule35Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure; Local Fifth Circuit Rule 12) the petitions for rehearing en banc are DENIED.

[5] The petition for panel rehearing filed by Kathy Hatmaker is DENIED.Page 133