Clarence Lee Taylor v. United States

STEPHENSON, Chief District Judge.

Clarence Lee Taylor appeals in forma pauperis from a judgment entered upon a jury’s verdict finding him guilty upon a single-count information charging him with unlawful possession of mail matter knowing it to be stolen, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1708. A defense motion to set aside and vacate the judgment was appropriately made but denied by the Court (The Honorable Roy W. Harper).

Mention should perhaps be made that this was Taylor’s second trial before the same judge on the charge under this information; that the first trial resulted in a mistrial; and that…