World Wide Automatic Archery, Inc. v. United States

356 F.2d 834 WORLD WIDE AUTOMATIC ARCHERY, INC., a corporation formed in the State of Washington, a/k/a World Wide Automatic Archery Lanes, Inc., Jerold B. Hegg and Samuel T. Mendenhall, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. No. 20109. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. Feb. 11, 1966, Rehearing Denied March 22, 1966. Opendack & Alfieri, Henry Opendack, Seattle, Wash., for appellants. William N. Goodwin, U.S. Atty., Robert C. Williams, Asst. U.S. Atty., Seattle, Wash., for appellee. Before BARNES, KOELSCH and BROWNING, Circuit Judges. BARNES, Circuit Judge: 1 The United States indicted World Wide Automatic Archery, Inc., a corporation, and defendants Hegg, Mendenhall, Choate and Robbins in a nine count indictment, charging them with the execution of a fraudulent scheme to sell securities, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1341 and 15 U.S.C. 77q(a), and with conspiracy to so violate. (18 U.S.C. 371.) Messrs. Choate and Robbins turned state's evidence, and pleaded guilty. The three remaining defendants were found guilty by a jury on all counts. Various concurrent and consecutive sentences were imposed, so that defendant Hegg was sentenced to a total of eleven…