United States ex rel. Whitaker v. Mathues

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

On an indictment, drawn under the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, 41 Stat. 324 (Comp. St. Ann. Snpp. 1923, §§ 10418b-10418f), Whitaker was tried and convicted in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California for transporting a motor vehicle in interstate commerce from Ocean City, New Jersey, to Los Angeles, California, knowing it to have been stolen. He was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of years in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas. On writ of error the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit…