Patrick Fagan Thomas v. United States

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment and sentence of imprisonment for one year, entered on December 17, 1959, upon a jury verdict finding the defendant (appellant) guilty under an information charging that on March 14, 1959, in St. Louis, Missouri, he had in his possession two cases of Vel beauty soap, of a value not in excess of $100, which had been unlawfully taken from an interstate shipment of freight, and which soap he knew had been stolen — a violation of Section 659, Title 18 U.S.C., which makes it a federal offense to have possession of such goods, knowing them to…