Eddie M. Harrison v. United States of America, Orson G. White v. United States

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, Eddie M. Harrison and Orson G. White, and a co-defendant, Joseph R. Sampson, were convicted in October, 1960, of the felony-murder of George H. “Cider” Brown.1 Death sentences, *206then mandatory, were imposed.2 The case submitted by the Government, and accepted by the jury, was that Brown was killed by a blast from Harrison’s shotgun in the course of an attempt to perpetrate a robbery espoused by the trio. While an appeal was pending, it came to light that one Daniel Jackson Oliver Wendel Holmes Morgan, a layman impersonating a member of the…