United States of America, Plainteff-Appellee v. Walter Lee Bush

In a two-count indictment returned in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, the appellant herein, as a convicted felon, was charged with transporting a firearm in interstate commerce, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), and with receiving and possessing a firearm which had moved in interstate commerce, in violation of 18 U.S.C. App. § 1202(a)(1). Having been acquitted on the transportation count, he appeals his jury conviction on the other count.

The three grounds for reversal of his conviction urged by appellant were substantially these: (1) There was not a…