United States v. Robert Antonelli

Defendant was convicted by a jury on Counts III, V, and VI of a six-count indictment charging him with violations of the federal anti-loan sharking law, so-called, 18 U.S.C. §§ 891-896 (Supp. V, 1970). On appeal, he seeks to overturn his convictions on three grounds: (1) that the statute is unconstitutional, (2) that certain testimony relative to the usury laws of Rhode Island was erroneously admitted at trial, and (3) that in Count III there was a prejudicial variance between the date alleged and the proof adduced at trial. In answer to his first contention, we point out that we have…