The United States v. James Dawson, A/K/A Roach

STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.

James Michael Dawson was convicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on two counts of selling, storing, and disposing of stolen explosive materials knowing them to be stolen, in violation of 18 U. S.C. § 842(h) 1 The conviction is appealed on the ground, among others, that § 842(h) is beyond the scope of the legislative power conferred on Congress by the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, and thus an improper intrusion upon legislative power reserved by the Tenth Amendment to the States, because the statute fails to require an…