United States v. Frank Richard Coppola

WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was charged in an indictment with Joe Cordova, Fred John Molina and Natividad Baca 1 with having conspired to murder one Willard Hardaway in connection with a dispute growing out of the alleged failure of Hardaway to deliver a quantity of heroin to appellant in the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas (in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371). In a second count he was charged with aiding and abetting Cordova, Molina and Baca in the murder of Hardaway, contrary to 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1111. Defendant was tried and was found guilty on March 27,…