United States v. Thomas Wiesle

Appellant Wiesle was convicted by a jury verdict of guilt 1 on one count of theft from an interstate shipment of freight in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 659. The sole issue raised on this appeal is whether appellant’s motion for a mistrial, based on the fact that during the government’s case-in-chief testimony was elicited that two accomplices had pled guilty to the same offense for which appellant was being tried, was correctly denied. We affirm.

The government’s evidence showed that on December 11, 1974, Affiliated Food Stores of Little Rock, Arkansas, ordered 168 cases of Crisco Shortening from…