United States v. Steven Arthur Carr

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge:

Steven Arthur Carr was convicted after a bench trial of violating 18 U.S.C. § 641 (1976) by retaining, with the intent to convert to his own use, nineteen stolen United States Series E Savings Bonds. Carr seeks reversal of his conviction, claiming that the nineteen stolen bonds he possessed were not a “thing of value of the United States” within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 641. We reject this claim and affirm Carr’s conviction.

I. Factual Background

The facts underlying Carr’s conviction are not in dispute. In 1968, Lena Cavett reported as stolen nineteen of…