Carlson v. United States

(concurring in part and dissenting in part).,1 cannot agree that there is substantial evidence to sustain the conviction on either count in the indictment. Congress, by enacting the National Stolen Property Act,. Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 415 (1948 Ed. Sec. 2314), has seen fit to make it a federal crime to transport interstate property which had theretofore been stolen, feloniously converted, or taken feloniously by fraud only when the value of the property is $5,000 or more. If the property so transported is of *373the value of less than $5,000, it is not a federal crime and the punishment for…