United States v. Willie Benny Yates

HILL, Circuit Judge.

Defendant appeals from a jury conviction in the District of Kansas for theft of goods valued in excess of $100 from an interstate shipment, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 659. On December 20, 1971, agents for the Rock Island Motor Transit Company apprehended two men carrying away three cardboard boxes of goods from the company’s docks in Kansas City, Kansas. Both men were arrested by the agents.

The defendant’s evidence consisted of two witnesses, defendant Yates and his cohort in the alleged crime, Albert Wade. Yates testified that he and Wade were hired by a man named Martin…