Sharp v. United States

MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, upon conviction by a jury verdict of transporting cattle in interstate commerce knowing them to have been stolen, in violation of Title 18, section 2316, United States Code, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. He insists that his motion for a judgment of acquittal, made both at the conclusion of -the evidence adduced by the Government and at the conclusion of all the evidence in the case, should have been granted.

We are. of opinion that there was substantial evidence to support the jury verdict of guilty. It is well settled that the verdict of the jury…