Walter Weaver Robertson v. United States

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The indictment contained three counts. The first count 1 charged the defendant with aiding and abetting three other men, Thompson, Creech and Boyett, in the theft of certain goods constituting part of an interstate shipment. The second count 2 charged him with receiving twelve pairs of men’s dress trousers of a value less than $100, a part of the interstate shipment referred to in Count 1, when he knew that said trousers had been stolen. The third count 3 charged him with receiving a spinning reel stolen from an interstate shipment while knowing that it had been stolen.

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