Max B. Leffler v. United States of America, Clifford William Close v. United States

MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge.

Max B. Leffler and Clifford William Close, defendants, were convicted by a jury of traveling interstate from Illinois to Missouri with intent to commit extortion, a crime under Missouri statutes in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 1952. 1 The issues before this court are; (1) the propriety of the trial court’s ruling in refusing to suppress certain evidence allegedly obtained in an illegal search and seizure; (2) the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the convictions; and (3) asserted prejudicial comments and alleged misstatement of the evidence by the trial court during…