United States v. Elkins

EAST, District Judge.

In the above entitled cause the defendants were convicted by a jury of the charges in the indictment submitted to it. Thereupon, the Court entered its judgment of conviction on May 21, 1957, fining and imprisoning each of the defendants. Subsequently, the cause was appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and was affirmed (266 F.2d 588). Thereafter, said defendants filed their writ of certio-rari to, and which was allowed by, the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Supreme Court, in its 5-4 opinion entered in Elkins et al. v. United States,…