Cook v. United States

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

Henry Cook and Austin Cook were convicted on count two of an indictment which charged that they had by the use of a deadly weapon resisted and assaulted a federal officer in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 254.

The record shows that Julian C. Wood was an Investigator of the Alcohol Tax Unit of the Internal Revenue Service, and that on December 2, 1939, he went with a local constable, Mitchell Currie, to the home of Henry Cook in Simpson County, Mississippi. Currie and Wood talked with Henry Cook in front of his home, and during the conversation Wood heard Cook admit previous…