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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stanley BROCK, a/k/a Sonny Brock, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 71-1079
    Summary Calendar.
    
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Jan. 20, 1972.
    
      Daniel S. Pearson, Alan M. Medof, Pearson & Josefsberg, P. A., Miami, Fla., for Stanley Brock.
    Robert W. Rust, U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., James H. Walsh, Atty., U. S. Dept, of Justice, Miami, Fla., for United States, Sidney M. Glazer, Shirley Bac-cus-Lobel, Attys., Dept, of Justice, Washington, D. C., of counsel.
    Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and INGRAHAM and RONEY, Circuit Judges.
    
      
        Rule 18, 5th Cir.; see Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York et al., 5th Cir. 1970, 431 F.2d 409, Part I.
    
   PER CURIAM:

Defendant, a previously convicted felon, was indicted and convicted of willfully and knowingly possessing a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. App. § 1202(a). The conviction must be reversed because the government neither alleged nor proved that the firearm was possessed “in commerce or affecting commerce,” as required by the recent decision of- the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Bass, 404 U.S. 336, 92 S.Ct. 515, 30 L.Ed.2d 488.

Reversed.