Legal Opinion
United States v. Patty McClain Mike Bradshaw, Ada Eveleigh Simpson and William Clark Simpson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 23, 1979No. 77-5690PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
Again before us come Patty McClain, Mike Bradshaw, Ada Simpson and William Simpson, challenging their second round of convictions for having received, concealed and/or sold stolen goods in interstate or foreign commerce and also for conspiracy to do the same, violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 2314 and 2315. The goods in which they dealt are pre-Columbian artifacts, and in neither this nor the prior trial was there evidence that the appellants or anyone else had taken the items from the personal possession of another. The legal theory under which the case was tried was that…
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3Cited by31 opinions
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