United States v. James Harold Hood

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

James Harold Hood appeals from his conviction of interstate transportation of stolen goods with a value in excess of $5,000, knowing the same to have been stolen, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2314. We affirm.

I

Hood first contends that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial by the government’s unreasonable delay in filing charges against him. He contends that although the Federal Bureau of Investigation was aware of the facts alleged in the indictment by October, 1975, twenty months elapsed between that time and the time that the indictment on which he…