Lloyd Carl Cummings v. United States

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

A jury found appellant Cummings guilty on each count of a 4-count indictment and he was sentenced to 3-year concurrent terms of imprisonment on each. Count 1 charges violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2316 by the transportation of 20 cattle from Manitoba, Canada, to Topeka, Kansas, with knowledge that they had been stolen. Count 2 is based on the sale and disposition of these cattle in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2317. Count 3 covers the use of interstate wire communications to execute a scheme to defraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and Count 4 charges the use of the mails for the same…