Cofer v. United States

GRUBB, District Judge.

The four appellants were convieted in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Mississippi for a violation of section 242, title 18, of the U. S. Code (18 USCA § 242), in conspiring to deter, by force, intimidation, or threat, one Pruitt, a witness before a court of the United States, from testifying in a matter pending therein freely, fully, and truthfully, and to injure said witness on account of his having so testified. They were sentenced under their convictions and have appealed from the judgments of conviction and the sentences imposed…