United States v. Thomas McKeever and Lawrence Morrison

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge.

Thomas McKeever and Lawrence M. Morrison appeal from sentences of five years imprisonment, with five additional years on probation, following their convictions for conspiracy and extortion in violation of the Anti-Racketeering Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1951. The indictment charged a conspiracy to obstruct the movement of goods in interstate and foreign commerce by means of extortion, together with forty-two counts of extortion, on all of which both defendants were convicted.

The appellants raise three questions on this appeal: first, whether the grand jury testimony of certain…