Flanagan v. United States
| Decision Date | 26 December 1962 |
| Docket Number | No. 19447.,19447. |
| Citation | 308 F.2d 841 |
| Parties | Walter Mark FLANAGAN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit |
William Murray Hill, San Diego, Cal., for appellant.
Barefoot Sanders, U. S. Atty., Robert Travis, Asst. U. S. Atty., Fort Worth, Tex., for appellee.
Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.
While the Court raised the question on its own motion concerning the timeliness of the notice of appeal, the circumstances are such that, giving the appellant the benefit of the doubt, we conclude that it was timely. But there is no doubt about the merits, and as it is clear that the appellant cannot prevail, the judgment is affirmed. This appeal is from a conviction of violating the White Slave Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 2421, on March 19, 1959.1
The appellant contends that he was not given a speedy trial as required by the Sixth Amendment. We find no substance to this. Within a month of his trial and conviction on the previous offense (see note 1, supra), he was put on trial for the instant charge. That trial ended in a hung jury. Under the docket conditions and specified terms for holding trials at various division points in this geographically widespread District, the case next came on for hearing on November 7, 1960. A week or so previously the appellant had moved to dismiss for want of a speedy trial. Notwithstanding this formal action, when the Court fixed the trial for November 7, 1960, appellant moved for a continuance to the next term of Court, and this was granted. Having taken that action which prevented a trial at that term, it was not unreasonable, and certainly it was not a denial of a speedy trial to postpone it to May 30-31, 1961, at which time the trial was had. See Harlow v. United States, 5 Cir., 1962, 301 F.2d 361; United States v. Lustman, 2 Cir., 1958, 258 F.2d 475.
Nor is there any basis for the contention that the trial Court erred in failing to issue subpoenas for witnesses on motion under F.R.Crim.P. 17(b), 18 U.S.C.A. Action to be taken on such a motion is necessarily committed to the sound discretion of the trial Court. There was certainly no showing that the expected testimony of the particular witnesses would be anything more than merely cumulative or for impeachment. More important, action on this motion (renewed at various times) was taken by the very same Judge who had actually conducted the first trial ending in a hung jury. He had passed on similar...
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