United States v. Robert Wyman Boyd

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

Robert Wyman Boyd was convicted of receiving, concealing and retaining two stolen mechanic’s tool boxes containing tools, all the property of the United States Government and having a value in excess of $100, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641. 1 Boyd was named in the second count of a two-count indictment. 2 Count one charged Bobby Gene Goble, George Lewis Winburn and Charley Wright, Jr., with the theft of the tool boxes and tools. Boyd was tried alone, and the co-indictees testified against him.

Boyd’s principal defense was that he was not aware that the property, which he…