Brown v. United States

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court sentencing the appellant in accordance with a jury verdict finding him guilty of violating 18 U.S.C.Section 371, the conspiracy statute. The trial court dismissed eight substantive counts against the appellant included in an information filed against him and his codefendant, Joe Colagross, deputy sheriff of Maury County, Tennessee. As to appellant, therefore, the case was tried upon Count 1 of the information, which charged him with conspiring with his codefendant Colagross to violate 18 U.S.C.Section 242, by depriving certain named…