United States v. Frank James Fricks

Appellant was convicted by a jury for theft of rifles from an interstate shipment in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 659, and sentenced to two years in prison. In this appeal, appellant alleges that the trial court erred in the admittance of certain documents without which the government’s case would fail because of insufficient evidence; further, that the evidence is insufficient to prove the crime as charged in the indictment; and, in refusing to declare a mistrial when it was discovered that one of the jurors was a friend of a key witness for the government.

We find none of the contentions of…