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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gary BOWDACH, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 71-1080
    Summary Calendar.
    
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Jan. 20, 1972.
    
      Daniel S. Pearson, Miami, Fla., Alan M. Medof, Pearson & Josefsberg, P. A., Miami, Fla., for defendant-appellant.
    Robert W. Rust, U. S. Atty., James H. Walsh, Sidney M. Glazer, Ronald G. Scheraga, Beatrice Rosenberg, Roger A. Pauley, Attys., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., Erwin N. Griswold, Sol. Gen., Will Wilson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Samuel Huntington, Asst. Sol. Gen., for plaintiff-appellee.
    Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and INGRAHAM and RONEY, Cii’cuit 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.