Garland Rex Brinlee, Jr. v. United States

This case is before us on the Government’s motion to dismiss defendant’s timely appeal from his conviction by a jury on four counts of an indictment charging violation of 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d), (f), 5871, and 18 U.S.C. § 371, and the resulting sentences imposed aggregating twelve years. The motion is based upon the ground that the defendant Garland Rex Brinlee, Jr., escaped from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary where he was serving a state sentence on August 6, 1973, that he is at present a fugitive from justice. The sentences imposed in our present case are consecutive to the Oklahoma State…