Weisberg v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Jacob Weisberg was convicted of receiving stolen goods, and appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
ROBB, Associate Justice.
Appellant, defendant below, was convicted of the crime of receiving stolen goods and sentenced to imprisonment for three years.
For the government, John Chatt, a colored driver for the Jacobs Transfer Company, testified that upon one occasion, when he was passing defendant’s grocery store, defendant came out and offered to buy anything he (witness) might get hold of, whether stolen or not; that upon the occasion in question witness got a consignment of 30 bags of sugar from Pennsylvania Depot, to be delivered at a place beyond defendant’s place of employment; that—
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2Cases cited10 opinions
- Adams v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1910
- State v. HonigSupreme Court of Missouri · 1883
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- State v. SakowskiSupreme Court of Missouri · 1905
- People v. FeinbergIllinois Supreme Court · 1908
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