United States v. F. Lee Bailey

DYER, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal under 28 U.S.C.A. § 1291 1 from the district court’s denial of defendant Bailey’s motion, based upon former jeopardy, to dismiss an indictment returned against him, and, alternatively, from the denial of his motion for a speedy trial. We dismiss for lack of appellate jurisdiction.

A brief statement of the posture of the case is necessary to focus on the narrow issue before us. Bailey, Bunting, and various other persons, both individual and corporate, were tried under a multicount indictment charging mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. The trial…