United States v. Arturo Jaime Lerma Sanchez and Carlos Guillermo Salinas, Jr.

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

The appellants, Arturo Jaime Lerma Sanchez (Lerma) and Carlos Guillermo Salinas, Jr. (Salinas) were tried and found guilty before a jury at Abilene, Texas, in the Northern District of Texas, on May 21 — 25, 1973 under an indictment returned by a Northern District grand jury in the Fort Worth Division of that court. The indictment, 1 returned April 24, 1973 charged the two appellants, in Count 1, together with eleven co-defendants, with conspiracy, Title 21, U.S.C. § 846, to distribute cocaine, a narcotic drug and a Schedule II controlled substance, to persons in the…