Henry Floyd Brown v. United States

BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.

This defendant, I-Ienry Floyd Brown, upon a plea of not guilty, was convicted 'by a jury of a violation in 1958 of that provision of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, commonly known as the Dyer Act, now found at 18 U.S.C. § 2312. The charge was transportation of a 1957 Ford .automobile in interstate commerce from Iowa to Missouri knowing it to have been ■ stolen. Brown promptly filed a notice of -appeal and a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. The District Court denied this motion and certified that the ■appeal was frivolous and not taken in good faith.…