United States v. Robert D. Pommerening and Cletus A. Reding

HILL, Circuit Judge.

Appellants were indicted by a federal grand jury in the State of New Mexico for bribing a government official in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 201(b)(1), and committing perjury before a grand jury of the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623(a). Subsequently appellants were convicted by a jury on all counts of the indictment.

The following evidence was adduced at trial. In the fall of 1971 appellants began negotiating with Ford Marketing Corporation for the Dick Russell Ford dealership in Clovis, New Mexico. To purchase this dealership appellants needed to borrow…