United States v. Rodgers

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

Late in the afternoon of April 27, 1968 a large number of the inmates at the United States Reformatory, El Reno, Oklahoma, participated in a riot. Substantial damage to government property resulted therefrom and a number of officers and employees of the institution were assaulted and injured by those taking part. Three separate indictments were returned, each charging in the first count that all of the defendants named therein “aided and abetted each other” in instigating the riot in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1792.1 In the various indictments, in addition to the aiding…