Eldred Clifton Manning v. United States

RITTER, District Judge.

The appellant was convicted and sentenced to a term in the penitentiary in the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. This appeal is taken from the judgment of that Court. The indictment was laid under the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, 41 Stat. 324, 18 U.S.C.A. § 408, 1 commonly known as the “Dyer Act”, and charged appellant with transporting a motor vehicle in interstate commerce from Ranger, Texas, to Garden City, Kansas, knowing it to have been stolen.

The appellant contends that it was error to convict him upon a confession uncorroborated…