United States v. Maurice Prieur

Maurice Prieur appeals from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict, convicting him of the theft of four cartons of men’s underwear from an interstate shipment, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 659. His appeal presents only the question of whether the evidence was sufficient to warrant submission of the issue of his guilt to the jury.

We affirm.

The government’s evidence showed that six cartons of men’s underwear had been loaded at Kenosha, Wisconsin, into a Knox Trailer 580, attached to a truck of Express Freight Lines. The manifest and freight bill showed the consignee of such shipment was the J.…