United States v. Robert J. Cohen

MATTHES, Circuit Judge.

This case comes to us on appeal from the judgment, entered on a jury verdict, finding appellant guilty of willfully removing, disposing of, and converting to his own use a quantity of wheat having a value in excess of $500 which had been mortgaged and pledged to the Commodity Credit Corporation, in violation of 15 U.S.C. § 714m(c). The dispositive question presented is whether the district court violated appellant’s Sixth Amendment right to assistance of counsel in defense of the charge.

The indictment was filed on December 5,1967. Appellant appeared for arraignment on…