Pullen v. United States

*757WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, W. J. Price, Luther Hunter, and Jack Pullen, were convicted under the third count of an indictment1 charging that the three defendants, together with two other defendants who were acquitted, while acting under color of law, subjected one R. D. Andrew, an inhabitant and citizen of the State of Texas and of the United States, to the deprivation of certain rights, privileges, and immunities secured and protected to him by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

The statute, Sec. 20 of the Criminal Code, Sec. 52, Title 18, U.S.C.A. under which the third…