Odom v. United States‪.‬

Appellants A. M. Odom, O. L. Mounce and J. O. Davis were convicted and sentenced for conspiracy to injure James A. Stansbury on account of his having testified as a witness in a court of the United States contrary to 18 U.S.C.A. § 242; and for having endeavored to intimidate and impede Stansbury from testifying as such witness by beating him, with intent to obstruct and impede the administration of justice in a court of the United States, contrary to 18 U.S.C.A. § 241. By a motion for instructed verdict it was and is questioned whether it was sufficiently shown that Stansbury was at the time of the beating known by the defendants to have testified as a witness in federal court, or that he intended thereafter to testify as a witness, and was beaten for that reason; and language of the courts charge is excepted to, bearing on the question of such knowledge.