S. J. Wilburn v. United States

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted on two counts of a four count indictment which charges him with illegal possession of different items of stolen mail matter, knowing the same to have been stolen, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 1708.

On the trial of the case, defendant’s main line of attack was that the government’s prime witness, Martin, was himself a self confessed accomplice in the crime with which the defendant was charged and that his evidence was not sufficiently corroborated. When the evidence closed, defendant made a motion for an instructed verdict based on and…