Halbert v. United States

DONAHUE, Circuit Judge.

T. J. Halbert and C. A. Cleaves were indicted for conspiracy to steal cotton seed meal from interstate shipments of freight. Hlalbert was the manager of the Riverside Elevator & Warehouse Company,- which company had a warehouse located on the Frisco Railroad tracks in Memphis, Tenn., between the location on said tracks of the plant of the Union Seed & Fertilizer Company and the Frisco interchange tracks, where cars from the warehouse tracks were received and placed in trains on the main tracks to be hauled to their destination. Cleaves was engine foreman on the Frisco…