United States v. Max Manny Elgisser and Louis Gladstein

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.

In the first count of an indictment Louis Gladstein and Max Manny Elgisser, along with William James Pitts, James Offie Cogdell, and Edward James Manin, were charged with having conspired, on and after December 1, 1961, to violate Title 18, Section 659 of the United States Code. That section makes it a crime either to steal from an interstate facility goods moving in interstate or foreign commerce, or to receive or possess such goods knowing them to be stolen.1 A second count charged Pitts and Manin with the substantive offense of knowingly possessing such goods on…