Harold Franklin Edge, Jr. v. United States

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was convicted of causing “a falsely made and forged security” to be transported in interstate commerce, knowing the instrument to have been falsely made and forged, in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 2314. 1 He received a sentence of eighteen months. We affirm.

Harold Franklin Edge, Jr., the appellant, registered in the Hotel Georgian Terrace, in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 15, 1958, under the fictitious name of “R. E. Spaine”. He had stayed at the same hotel within a month before this and had registered under the same name of “R. E. Spaine”. On September 16,…