United States v. Johnny Boyce

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

Johnny Boyce appeals his jury conviction of violating 18 U.S.C.App. § 1202 by possessing a firearm after having been convicted previously of a felony. We affirm.

I

At approximately 4:00 a.m. on a September 1984 morning, St. Louis Police Officer Ray Reynolds followed and eventually stopped an automobile that he had seen speeding around a corner. Boyce, the driver, was accompanied by a female passenger named Kim Bird. Officer Reynolds noticed a rifle on the back floor of the automobile which, according to Reynolds’s testimony at trial, Boyce initially claimed as his own,…