United States v. George Wilson

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This motion under Rule 46(a) (2), F.R.Cr.P., for bail pending appeal from the defendant’s conviction as a second federal narcotics offender comes before me singly while the court is in recess. Though the prospects of reversal appear dim, I am not disposed at this stage of the case to hold the appeal frivolous. But the defendant’s extensive criminal record, going back for over twenty years to a time when he was only twenty-one, does give pause. He appears to have had three convictions for petty larceny, one for grand larceny, three for infringement of state narcotics laws,…