Jimmy Floyd Sewell v. United States

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Jimmy Floyd Sewell was jointly indicted but separately tried and convicted by a jury of a violation of the Dyer Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2312. Sewell’s companions in the offense pleaded guilty to the identical charge, were sentenced, and testified at Sewell’s trial.

On appeal Sewell contends: (1) his arrest was invalid because the arresting officer lacked probable cause to make the arrest, and (2) the instructions given by the District Court on aiding and abetting in the commission of a crime, and on possession and, in particular possession of recently stolen property,…