Frederick Elmo Thompson, Jr. v. United States

HAMLIN, Circuit Judge.

Frederick Elmo Thompson, Jr., appellant herein, was charged in an indictment filed in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada with three counts of violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2314. In Count I of the indictment he was charged with a violation of the first paragraph of section 2314 which provides punishment for “[w]hoever transports in interstate or foreign commerce any goods, wares, merchandise, securities or money of the value of $5,000 or more, knowing the same to have been stolen, converted or taken by fraud * *

In Count III of said indictment the…