United States v. Billie Frield Swaggerty

SWAIM, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, Billie Frield Swaggerty, with others was indicted, No. 53-CR-6, for the theft and possession of an interstate shipment of bottled whiskey in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 659. The whiskey in question was being transported in a truck from Lawrenceburg, Indiana, to a city in Illinois. This indictment also charged the defendant and one other with the transportation in interstate commerce of a truck in which the whiskey was being transported, knowing the truck to have been stolen, all in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 2312. To this indictment the defendant appeared in…