William Langford Hodge and Robert Branch, Appellants, v. United States of America, Appellee, 271 F.2d 52 (5th Cir. 1959)

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit - 271 F.2d 52 (5th Cir. 1959) October 30, 1959
Rehearing Denied November 28, 1959

Clyde W. Atkinson, M. Howard Williams, J. Worth Owen of Williams & Owen, Tallahassee, Fla., for appellants.

F. E. Steinmeyer, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Wilfred C. Varn, U. S. Atty., Tallahassee, Fla., for appellee.

Before RIVES, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE and JONES, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.


The only insistence on error is in the district court's refusal to allow appellants' counsel forty minutes as requested for argument to the jury and the allowance instead of thirty minutes. See Rossi v. United States, 8 Cir., 1925, 9 F.2d 362, 368. We find no abuse of discretion. The judgment is

Affirmed.

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