Beck v. United States

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

Appellant appeals from a verdict and judgment convicting him of the crime of grand larceny.

It appears that on October 3, 1932, appellant, in company with a man named Kent, registered at a hotel in Washington. The following day he rented a room at 2016 Connecticut avenue, giving the name of Albert L. Bailey. On October 4, answering an advertisement in a local paper, he went to Miss Hazel Collison to purchase her automobile, and the next day agreed to purchase it for $300 cash on delivery, the delivery to be made the following day at the Connecticut avenue address.…