United States v. George H. Farnkoff, Jr.

McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was indicted on one count charging him with possession of property valued over $100 stolen from an interstate shipment, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 659. 1 He was found guilty after a jury trial, and this appeal followed. He assigns as error the following actions of the trial court: (1) the denial on procedural grounds of a motion to suppress; (2) the denial (on the merits) of a separate motion to suppress; (3) the failure to grant his motion for judgment of acquittal; (4) an allegedly improper instruction on the recent theft doctrine; and (5) the failure to…