Roma v. United States

ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

Under an indictment of eight counts appellants were- convicted and sentenced on the seventh alone, which charged them with willfully, etc., receiving and concealing, and aiding in concealing, and having and retaining in their possession, with intent to convert to their own use and gain, certain property of the United States which theretofore, to their knowledge, had been embezzled, stolen, and purloined by another person; the property consisting of 99-sacks of bottles of whisky.

It seems that on May 12, 1930, a large number of sacks of bottled whisky were seized in a…