United States v. Stanley Welton Mathis

McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

Stanley Mathis was convicted by a jury of unlawfully transporting a stolen flatbed truck and a farm tractor from Howe, Texas, to Durant, Oklahoma, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2314 (1976). It is undisputed that on March 1, 1978, at approximately nine o’clock p. m., a flatbed truck and a farm tractor were stolen from a John Deere farm implements dealership in Howe, Texas. The tractor was driven onto the flatbed of the truck, and the truck, with tractor, was driven to Durant, Oklahoma, where the driver of the truck was arrested and the vehicles were recovered by the…