Wolf v. United States

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was tried and convicted under an indictment which charged that he unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly had in his possession, with intent to convert to his own use, 150 bolts of woolens, which were stolen while moving in interstate commerce, the goods being taken from a freight house of the New York Central Railroad in New York, knowing the same to have been stolen. The indictment was under the Act of February 13, 1913 (37 Stat. 67Ó [Comp. St. §§ 8603, 8604]). The part of the statute applicable to the case is…