United States v. John Quinton Hutchison

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from a conviction resting on a jury verdict in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The indictment was in a single count and charged the defendant with transporting and causing to be transported a falsely made security in interstate commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 2314.

The prosecution proved that the defendant secured a check from his victim by fraudulently representing himself to be an agent of a bonding company sent to settle her claim arising out of an earlier transaction in which she had been defrauded. The…