United States v. Beck

ALLRED, District Judge.

Defendants are charged with smuggling ten “cartuchos” of marihuana (weighing approximately 8 ounces), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 545. Heretofore they were arraigned upon a prior indictment charging the same offense, to which Beck, Stanford and Jones entered a plea of not guilty and Harrington pled guilty. The court accepted Harring*757ton's plea and the government thereupon dismissed as to Beck, Stanford and Jones. However, when Harrington was questioned by the court preliminary to sentence, he denied guilty knowledge. The court ordered his plea of guilty withdrawn and…