United States v. Cecil Dwayne Evans, Arnold Gene Tate, and Charles Edward Gent, Jr.

JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge:

The six defendants in this case were charged in a complex sixteen count indictment. The trial lasted three weeks. On this appeal, three of the defendants, appellants, raise twenty-one separate points of error based on a transcript of over four thousand pages and a record of over one thousand one hundred pages. The exhibits entered into evidence were virtually too numerous to count. Faced with this extensive record and complex appeal, we shall begin at the beginning and go on till we come to the end; then affirm in part and reverse in part. 1

I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY

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