United States v. Betty Koran

WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-Appellant seeks reversal of a conviction by the court, the jury having been waived, in a case in which she was charged with violation of 18 U.S.C. § 659 which prohibits the buying, receiving or having in one’s possession goods stolen from interstate commerce, knowing them to have been stolen. 1 The government and the defendant stipulated that the fur coats described in the indictment were stolen from REA Express and that at the time of the taking the coats were moving in commerce from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Kansas City, Missouri. It was also stipulated…