United States v. Fred Lamont Boone

BOREMAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellant, Fred Lamont Boone, was convicted on six counts of transporting or causing to be transported, with unlawful and fraudulent intent and in interstate commerce, fraudulently made or forged securities in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 2314 and 2. 1 Boone’s principal claim of error is that the evidence was insufficient to permit a finding by the jury that Boone knew the checks which he cashed and caused to be transported were forgeries, such knowledge being one of the essential elements of the crime.

Boone had been tried earlier on the same charges under a…