Gideon Pelores Lyda, Alias G. P. Lyda v. United States

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

The principal question here is the meaning to be attributed to “stolen” as it defines property, the interstate transportation of which is a crime under the Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 2314. Subsidiary to that are problems concerning the sufficiency of the indictment. The case comes to us after conviction on a two-count indictment. Count one charged Lyda and another (Malone) with transportation in interstate commerce of “stolen goods and merchandise to-wit, a load of native pecans * * * [knowing the same] to have been stolen.”…