United States v. Marvin Mulligan and Melvin Markowitz

This is an appeal by habeas corpus petitioners from the District Court’s denial of their application.

Appellants were convicted in the same District Court now appealed from in this action in March, 1974 of the offense of transporting a stolen treasury bill in interstate commerce, knowing the same to have been stolen or taken by fraud. 1 The security in question had a maturation value of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) and was one of three thousand bills taken in a theft in New York City from the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York between the dates of the 16th and 20th of…