Charles James Myricks v. United States

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal from a conviction for unlawful interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle, 18 U.S.C.A. § 2312, turns primarily on the legality and the time of the arrest by a Texas Highway Patrolman for failure of the driver to have in his possession a valid vehicle operator’s license. This brings into sharp focus again the ironic fact that effective enforcement of an established uniform national policy through the sanction of federally imposed criminal laws depends often on the varying local principles of arrest, particularly without a warrant. The problem is…