Stern v. United States. Giordano v. United States

There appears to me no reversible error in the court’s charge on the question of value wherein it instructed the jury that the market value at the time and place of taking was the true standard of value within the meaning of the statute, and that if there was no market value for the furs at the time and place in question, the jury could consider the cost of replacement of the furs at the time and place as the value of the furs for the purpose of the case.

Among the witnesses for the government, Stephen J. Peterlin, an expert furrier, testified that, considering the use which the two garments…