Lawrence H. Ray v. United States

Following trial to a jury, appellant was convicted on all counts of an eight count indictment. Counts I, II, III and VII, charged violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (a) (4). Counts IV, V, VI, and VIII, charged violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (a) (2).

The alien referred to in Counts I and IV is Antonio Valenzuela-Lopez; the alien referred to in Counts II and V is Celedonio Martinez-Dorame; the alien referred to in Counts III and VI is Carmen Chavez-Franco; and the alien referred to in Counts VII and VIII is Jose Romero-Siquero.

The judgment and commitment of the District Court, after reciting that appellant had been convicted by jury verdicts as charged in each of the eight counts, committed the appellant to the custody of the Attorney General, or his authorized representative, for “imprisonment for a period of eighteen months.”

On this appeal the only errors specified in appellant’s brief are the claimed error of the District Court in failing to grant the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict of acquittal on Counts I, II and III at the close of the government’s case; and claimed error of the District Court in giving one instruction to which appellant objected, and refusing to give…