Alvin Eugene Baker v. United States

(dissenting) :

I must dissent. This defendant-appellant and the majority have not convinced me that the evidence is insufficient to support a submission to the jury.

The one count indictment charged Rideout, Pippins, and the appellant Baker with a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2312, that is, with transporting and wilfully causing to be transported a certain automobile from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Saint Louis, Missouri, knowing the motor vehicle to have been stolen. It is of course well settled that, although an indictment does not refer to the aider and abetter statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2, proof of…