United States v. Willie Hardy Kelley

Defendant, Willie Hardy Kelley, appeals his conviction of aiding and abetting the unlawful possession of a United States Treasury check stolen from the mail in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1708.

On August 1, 1976, a number of Government checks were stolen from a United States Postal Service vehicle in the City of Dallas. Lester Hall, among others, had not received his expected Government check, although it had been mailed to him. The testimony of the prosecution’s witnesses indicated that on August 3, 1976, defendant Kelley approached his friend Wesley Wayne Moore with an offer to make…