Booth v. United States

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting appellant as a co-conspirator in a conspiracy to violate Section 7 of the National Stolen Property Act, Act of May 22, 1934, 48 Stat. 795, as amended by the Act of August 3, 1939, 53 Stat. 1178, 18 U.S.C.A. 413 et seq., The indictment charged appellant and certain other persons with conspiracy to receive, conceal and store in Southern California stock certificates of a value in excess of $5,000, knowing them to have been stolen from the offices of the Superior Portland Cement Inc., Seattle Washington, which certificates were…