Copertino v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Li Error to the District'Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; J. Warren Davis, Judge. Michael Copertino and Peter Cucorcllo were convicted of having stolen property in their possession, and bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
HAIGHT, District Jtidge.
The plaintiffs in error were convicted tinder an ind'.cluient which charged them with having violated an act approved on February 13, 1913 (37 Stat. 670, c. 50 [Comp. St. §§ 8603, 8604]), in that they feloniously had in their possession certain bars of copper which had theretofore been stolen, while constituting a part of an interstate shipment of freight, knowing the same to have been .stolen. The government’s evidence tended to prove that some time in the late afternoon or early evening of April 17, 1918, a car containing a large number of copper bars, which had been…
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