United States v. Powell

MINTON, Circuit Judge.

The defendant-appellant Kennedy was convicted on both counts of an indictment for violations of the Mann Act, Sec. 2, Act of June 25, 1910, 38 Stat. 825, 18 U.S.C.A. § 398. The defendants-appellants in the other three cases were convicted under indictments which charged them with receiving goods that had been stolen from interstate shipments, knowing that the goods had been stolen. 18 U.S.C.A. § 409. One question is presented in all four of these cases, and the decision of that question will dispose of all four cases.

In each case in the trial court no motion for a…