United States v. Raymond Owens

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

In this case we are asked to affirm the conviction of a seventeen-year-old boy for aiding and abetting the interstate transportation of forged money orders. His conviction rests on restless pedestals — a combination of irrelevant presumptions and irrational inferences. Unless we conclude that reason and rationality have departed the law, reversal is compelled in this case.

This is an in forma pauperis appeal from a conviction and sentence un der the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 5031 et seq. The Bill of Information in this case, which was filed after…