United States v. Respess

Opinion of the Court

Quinn, Chief Judge:

The accused was convicted of willful disobedience of an order. At trial, he moved for a severance on the ground a coaccused intended to enter a plea of guilty. The motion was denied. He contends the ruling constitutes error because the offense with which he was charged was “committed at a different time and under different circumstances than . . . [the offense] of his co-accused’’ so as not to “even permit a common trial.” At the same time, however, he maintains he and the coaccused with whom he was tried were so “inseparably con*232nected with substantially…