Legal Opinion
Eugene E. Turberville v. United States of America, Bernard T. Williams v. United States of America, James H. Simpson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 25, 1962No. 16392_1PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.
On the evening of December 5, 1959, two men and a woman were sitting beside a fire in front of an unoccupied shack on a vacant lot in the Southwest section of Washington. Three men came upon the lot and launched a vicious assault upon them. As a result of the savage attacks, one of the men already on the lot, Ollie Bowman, was beaten to death; the second was beaten and burned; and the woman was raped, beaten and burned.
The appellants here, Turberville, Simpson and Williams, were arrested and indicted for first degree murder, felony murder, assault with intent to…
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