United States v. Willie Thomas Rudolph, William E. Taylor and Albert Reese

WEICK, Chief Judge.

Appellants, Rudolph, Taylor and Reese, were found guilty by a jury in the District Court of conspiracy to violate the narcotics laws. 21 U.S.C. § 174 and 26 U.S.C. § 4705(a). Rudolph and Taylor were each sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, and Reese to ten years’ imprisonment.

The Government’s evidence was supplied by an informer named Herbert Robinson, three Federal Narcotics Agents, and two detectives from the City of Cleveland who accompanied Robinson to Mansfield, Ohio, where a sale of narcotics was consummated.

At the trial, Taylor was the only defendant who…