Joseph Daniel Holt v. United States

GRIFFIN B. BELL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction entered on a three count indictment charging Holt with having transported a stolen Chevrolet automobile from Dallas to Atlanta on July 18, 1962, with having sold it in Atlanta on the same day, and with having also transported a Ford automobile, received in trade for the stolen Chevrolet, from Atlanta to Dallas. Title 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 2312, 2313. The sole issue presented turns on whether the District Court erred in having excluded proffered evidence.

The critical question in the case was the identification of appellant…