United States of America, and v. Luis Kaiser Peyton, United States of America, and v. Jose Agusto Marin

The judgments of conviction as to each defendant and as to each count are affirmed.

The counts involved the transportation of aliens, 8 U.S.C. § 1324.

A question of sufficiency of the evidence as to each defendant is raised. We find the evidence adequate.

The evidence showed that Marin launched the enterprise and Peyton carried it out. One Madden, later a government witness, was the intermediary.

Counsel seems to make the invalid assumption that the defendants had to be believed. This is simply not so. Also, the trier of fact could have drawn affirmative inferences of knowledge and intent from…