WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 20258, 20765.

328 F.2d 669 (1964)

Jimmy Clyde WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. Paul Wayne HOWELL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

March 5, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. Williams, Fort Worth, Tex., Gordon MacDowell, Dallas, Tex., for J. C. Williams.

Gordon MacDowell, Dallas, Tex., for P. W. Howell.

Barefoot Sanders, U. S. Atty., T. Gary Cole, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Fort Worth, Tex., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and BROWN and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

These two cases arising out of the same trial and consolidated for argument and submission to this Court attack the judgment of the trial court on the ground that testimony of an extrajudicial confession of guilt was improperly admitted in evidence.

The appellants, together with a third person who has not appealed, were convicted of robbing a contract post office in a small grocery store in Fort Worth, Texas. They were picked up in California...

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