Jones v. United States

MARTIN, Acting Associate Justice.

The defendant, now the appellant, was indicted jointly with one Roberts upon the charge of stealing an automobile and certain tires, tubes, and a battery belonging to it. The defendant pleaded not guilty and went to trial. Roberts, his codefendant, pleaded guilty and became a witness for the prosecution.

The first- witness at the trial was the owner of the automobile, who testified in substance that it was stolen on a certain evening in February, 1920, when he had left it parked upon a street in the city of Washington, and that when it was recovered the tires,…