United States v. Edward A. Greer and Alphonse P. Bartkus

SWYGERT, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the conviction of two defendants arising out of the theft of 40,400 pounds of copper from an interstate freight depot in Greenfield, Indiana. Defendants Edward A. Greer and Alphonse P. Bartkus were each named in two counts of the four-count indictment. Count One charged the defendants, four codefendants, and three named but unindicted coconspira-tors, with participation in a conspiracy having three unlawful objectives — stealing from an interstate shipment of copper in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 659, transportation of the cargo in interstate commerce…