Ray Edward Gondron and Daniel Elchuk v. United States

Appellants seek reversal of their convictions for violations of 26 U.S.C.A. § 4744(a), 18 U.S.C.A. § 545 for importation, concealment and transportation, and transfer of marihuana. We need not pass on their contentions for the Government, by its motion here, agrees that a new trial should be granted and that the judgments ought not to stand because the convictions may have been tainted by the untrue and false testimony of a specified key witness.

The result is that the relief sought by the appellants, the reversal of the judgments, is granted as prayed for by each of them. Mesarosh v. United…