United States v. Billy Gene Compton

CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Billy Gene Compton, defendant-appellant, from a judgment of conviction in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Western Division. Compton, whom we will call defendant, was charged in a three count indictment with a violation of Section 1952, 1 Title 18, U.S.C. Count one charged the substantive offense and, in brief, was to the effect that the defendant traveled in interstate commerce from the State of Arkansas to the Western District of Tennessee with intent to promote, manage and establish a gambling business…