United States v. Michael Anthony Sinacola

SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

The main point argued in this appeal is whether a theft or embezzlement of interstate goods occurred prior or subsequent to the defendant’s surrender of his possession of the goods.

Defendant Michael Anthony Sinacola was sentenced after a jury trial to six months in prison and two and one-half years probation for violation of 18 U.S. C. § 659.1

*308According to the testimony of Roy Thurman Wagner, the owner of a company which bought submersible sump pumps and sold them to contractors to install in homes, defendant, an employee of Associated Truck Lines, Incorporated,…