Edgar Harold Teague v. United States

HAMLEY, Circuit Judge.

Edgar Harold Teague appeals from his conviction and sentence on a charge of stealing goods which had been placed on a wharf as part of a foreign shipment. 1 Two questions are presented here. The first is whether the trial court committed reversible error in receiving in evidence a Japanese weighmaster’s certificate. The second is whether the court erred in denying Teague’s motion for judgment of acquittal. 2

Teague was convicted of stealing five coils of used copper wire. Early in 1957, Federated Metals Company of San Francisco sold 186 coils of used copper wire to a…