United States v. Lester Clifford Lee

WEICK, Circuit Judge.

Lee was convicted by a jury in the District Court on two counts of an indictment which charged him in the first count with transporting a firearm in interstate commerce after having been convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year, 15 U.S.C. § 902(e) 1 , and in the third count with possessing and concealing counterfeit money with intent to defraud, 18 U.S.C. § 472. He was sentenced to five years on each count, to run concurrently, from which judgment he appeals.

While stationed in Okinawa, Japan, with the United States Air Force, Lee was convicted in 1949 of rape…