United States v. MacEo Thomas, United States of America v. Gus Saunders and Eloise Saunders

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

The three defendants in these appeals were convicted by a Federal jury of conspiracy to violate the narcotic laws of the United States. The indictment charged, and the prosecution’s proofs tended to show, that defendants Gus and Eloise Saunders, during the years 1960 and 1961, together with others, participated in a narcotic peddling operation in Detroit while procuring their supply of narcotics from defendant Maceo Thomas in Chicago.

Proof of the basic conspiracy is clear and convincing, provided the testimony of a co-conspirator, one Ferguson, is accepted as credible.…