Jesse Arthur Clifton v. United States

GEWIN, Circuit Judge.

The appellant in this case was convicted upon his plea of not guilty to an indictment which charged him with transporting a stolen vehicle in interstate commerce, knowing the vehicle to have been stolen, a violation of 18 U.S. C.A. § 2312.

The evidence introduced at the trial indicated that appellant had borrowed the automobile in question from a friend named French in Florida on November 13, 1963, and that he had used French’s car on previous occasions. French testified that on the occasion in question appellant wished to use the car to look for work in the nearby town of…