Robert Lee Lewis v. United States

(dissenting) .

The crucial issue is whether the stolen credit card unlawfully transported in interstate commerce was used or fitted to be used in the false making or forging of a security. The information charged that the credit card was used with a machine by which “an impression is mechanically applied to a form of invoice, an evidence of indebtedness and security.”

The statute defines security to include evidence of indebtedness,1 but does not include “invoice” within the definition and does not define evidence of indebtedness. The word “invoice” was used in the information to describe…