Moorehead v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi; Edwin R. Holmes, Judge. George E. Moorehead and another were convicted of conspiracy, with five other persons, to steal goods which were parts of interstate-shipments, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge.
The two plaintiffs in error, George L-Moorehead and J. P. Shackelford, were convicted on a count of the indictment charging them and five other persons with conspiring, on or about the 15th day of November, 1918, to steal goods and chattels-which were parts of interstate shipments of freight, and that, to effect the obj ect of the conspiracy, the seven persons j oined in the indictment stole whisky from a certain railway car, to wit, Pennsylvania car-No. 50993, alleged to be the property oí a named railroad company, then and there moving as and constituting a part of a…
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