Jones v. United States

PHILLIPS, District Judge.

Robert Jones and Kenneth Jones were indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced for a violation of section 3 of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act. 41 Stat. 325, U.' S. Comp. St. Supp. 1923, § 10418d. The charging part of the indictment reads as follows:

“That on or about the 12th day of July, 1924, .at Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri, in the Western division of the Western district of Missouri, * * * one Robert Jones, one Kenneth Jones, and one Joseph W. Wagner, then and there being, did then and there unlawfully, willfully, knowingly, and feloniously, and in…