United States v. Clarence Eugene Evans

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

An unknown person or persons broke into an F.D.I.C. insured state bank facility located at Swaledale, Iowa, on November 2, 1970, and removed three hundred blank money orders. On or about November 6, 1970, Clarence Eugene Evans, the appellant here, received $150 in exchange for one of these bank money orders, which had been filled in to show a face value of that amount. This transfer furnished the basis for the conviction of Evans, after trial by jury, for unlawful possession of a stolen bank money order, valued in excess of $100, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(c). The…