Legal Opinion
United States v. Paul N. Hankish, and James L. Matthews
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 17, 1974No. 73-1926PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal by Paul Hankish and James Matthews from convictions of crimes relating to a stolen interstate shipment of beer. Of the several questions presented, the most important are venue and the prejudicial effect of a newspaper article that appeared during trial.
According to the testimony most favorable to the prosecution, John Bruno and Jackie Longfellow stole a tractor-trailer rig loaded with 1,456 cases of Stroh’s beer. The shipment was in transit from Detroit to a distributing company in Huntington, West Virginia. The next day defendant Hankish agreed to buy…
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