United States v. Phillip Wolfe Fierson

GRANT, District Judge.

This case began with the filing of a two-count indictment against appellant charging violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 912 and 913, respectively. Appellant was found not guilty on Count II, the Section 913 count, but was found guilty on Count I, the Section 912 count, of falsely pretending to be an F.B.I. agent and, in such pretended character, demanding a 1961 Oldsmobile from one Moore, as charged, in the indictment.1 Upon such finding judgment was entered and this appeal followed.

Fierson’s defense at trial was that he did in fact repossess the automobile over which Moore, the…