Bernard Joseph McCarthy III v. United States

HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken from a judgment of conviction and a sentence for violation of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2312. The indictment charged interstate transportation by appellant in November, 1967, of a Lincoln Continental automobile from Washington, D.C., to Albuquerque, New Mexico, with knowledge that the car had been stolen. Prosecution evidence showed appellant’s use at Washingon of a stolen driver’s license and Hertz credit card and his forgery of their owner’s signature on a rental contract to obtain use of the car, and driving of the car by…