Anthony Granza and Vincent Ferrara v. United States

The appellants Granza and Ferrara have filed a petition for rehearing, urging several grounds therefor. The first contention is that they terminated their participation in the conspiracy prior to the Houston shipment of heroin. They rely on testimony by the coconspirator Abramson to the effect that appellants had told him prior to the transaction in Houston that they would like to quit the conspiracy. We cannot accept this expression of desire to be finished with the conspiracy as an actual termination.

The contention that the appellants’ handwriting exemplars were protected by the Fifth…