Beeler v. United States

In order to convict defendant of the offense with which he was charged, conspiring with one Vandable to transport a motor vehicle in foreign commerce, knowing said vehicle to have been stolen, it was necessary that the government prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he made the guilty agreement he was charged with having made.

There was no direct evidence whatever that he made such an agreement, and the government’s case, therefore, depended entirely upon circumstantial evidence, and meager circumstantial evidence at that.

In Kassin v. United States, 5 Cir., 87 F.2d 183, 184, in reversing a…