United States v. Jacob Eisenberg, Hyman Eisenberg and Dante v. Coppola

Jacob and Hyman Eisenberg owned and operated a television and radio store in Brooklyn, New York. On October 14, 1953 F.B.I. agents found and seized on the store premises radio tubes having a stipulated value of more than $700. The indictment charged that these tubes were stolen from a motor truck belonging to Hall’s Motor Transport Co. moving in interstate commerce, and that the three defendants were in possession of the tubes knowing the same to have been stolen.

The main contention of the appellants is that the government failed to prove that the seized tubes were part of the interstate…