Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit May 25, 1983, 82-1315, 82-1293, 82-1294 and 82-1303 (United States v. Kenneth Joe Whitten, John Elmer Gaiefsky, Jack Wayne Gish, Richard Lawrence Shimel)

SCHWARZER, District Judge:

Kenneth Whitten and twenty-three codefendants were charged in a twenty-four count indictment with making and selling methamphetamine. The trial court severed the case against four defendants, Whitten, Shimel, Gaiefsky, and Gish, who now appeal from their convictions of various narcotics offenses in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846, 843(b), and 848.