Farber v. United States

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

An indictment against Gus Farber, a diamond and jewelry merchant of San Francisco, charged in count one thereof that on or about February 21, 1939, he willfully, unlawfully, and knowingly acquired thirteen genuine $20 gold coins of the United States without a license in accordance with the President’s Order No. 6260, as amended, 12 U.S.C.A. § 95 note,1 which Order was authorized by the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, 40 Stat. 411, 415, as amended March 9, 1933, 12 U.S.C.A. § 95a. He was convicted and appeals to this Court.

The evidence is to the effect that a man…