John Thomas Jackson v. United States

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence in a Dyer Act, 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 2311-2313, case tried by the district court without the intervention of a jury. The appellant was sentenced to four and one-half years’ imprisonment.

In our opinion, there was ample substantial evidence to support the judgment of the district court, which was certainly not clearly erroneous. The crucial question was whether or not the owner of an automobile (a woman) had given appellant permission to carry her car from Detroit, Michigan, to a point in West Virginia. The owner stated that she gave…