Legal Opinion
Cecil William Myers and Joseph Howard Sims v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 19, 1967No. 23847PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Chief Judge:
This is an appeal from conviction and sentence of the appellants, Myers and Sims, to serve ten years imprisonment for violation of Title 18, U.S.C.A. Sec, 241, 1 one of the basic civil rights criminal statutes.
These appellants, together with one Hampton Turner, were tried jointly for engaging in a conspiracy “to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate Negro citizens of the United States in the vicinity of Athens, Georgia, in the free exercise and enjoyment by said Negro citizens of the following rights and privileges secured to them by the Constitution and laws of the…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- United States v. CardiffSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Herman Roberson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1958
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3Cited by13 opinions
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- United States v. Louis Nakaladski, A/K/A Louis Nash, Ettore Coco, A/K/A Eddie CocoCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
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