Bell v. United States

• Decision Date: 04 February 1947
• Docket Number: No. 10432.,10432.
• Citation: 159 F.2d 247
• Parties: Arthur L. BELL, George Gouverneur Ashwell, Eugene Wadsworth Brown, J. Fred Burkey, Lawrence Cook, A. Ray Elsea, Ed Gilson, Max-Theodore Miller, Bay Burns Sharp and Homer G. Wilcox, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
• Court: U.S. Court of Appeals — Ninth Circuit

159 F.2d 247 (1947)

Arthur L. BELL, George Gouverneur Ashwell, Eugene Wadsworth Brown, J. Fred Burkey, Lawrence Cook, A. Ray Elsea, Ed Gilson, Max-Theodore Miller, Bay Burns Sharp and Homer G. Wilcox, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

No. 10432.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

February 4, 1947.

Russell E. Parsons, A. L. Wirin, and Lorrin Andrews, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants.

James M. Carter, U. S. Atty., Norman W. Neukom, Asst. U. S. Atty., and William Strong, Sp. Asst. to U. S. Atty., all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Osmond K. Fraenkel and Arthur Garfield Hays, both of New York City, for American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiæ.

En Banc.

PER CURIAM

Upon the authority of Ballard v. United States, 67 S.Ct. 261, the judgments appealed from in the above entitled case are reversed and the cause remanded to the District Court with instructions to dismiss the indictment.