United States v. Wertz

ORDER ON MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL

HEMPHILL, District Judge.

Defendants’1 motion for a new trial, duly noted, was heard by this court, at Green-ville, July 5, 1979. The grounds for the motion are that the court should have suppressed2 certain testimony as hereinafter revealed.

Defendants seek to suppress certain statements made by the defendant Vaughn after Drug Enforcement Agent Odis Rousseau pointed a pistol at Vaughn’s midsection.

Prior to trial Vaughn had made a suppression motion, but this was abandoned as it appeared that there were . no grounds upon which the motion could be based. At that…