Legal Opinion
United States v. Melvin Turner
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 14, 1978No. 78-5399PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Melvin Turner was convicted after a jury trial of possessing counterfeit United States obligations in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 474 1 and appeals. We affirm his conviction.
On March 10, 1978, Lee Thompson, the president of T & S Vending Company, discovered that the company’s change-making machine located in St. Margaret’s Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, had paid out change that day for nineteen counterfeit bills. These bogus bills were black and white photocopies of the faces of genuine one-dollar bills; the backs of the bills were left blank. A lookout was…
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