Lawrence Harold Wood v. United States

RIDGE, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was found guilty by jury verdict under an indictment which singularly charged him with unlawfully “entering a railroad car * * * containing an interstate shipment of freight, * * having the intent to commit a larceny therein” in violation of § 2117, Title 18 U.S.C.A., and was sentenced to six (6) years’ imprisonment therefor. He was granted leave to perfect appeal therefrom in forma pawperis by his sentencing Court. He seeks reversal of his conviction on several grounds: (1) there was a variance between the charge set forth in his indictment and proof adduced at…