Sheridan v. United States

MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

Upon his trial in the district court for alleged violation of the National Stolen Property Act, U.S.C.A., Title 18, Sec. 415, Paul Davis Sheridan waived counsel proffered him by the trial court and chose to defend himself. He was convicted by the verdict of a jury and was sentenced by the district judge to concurrent terms of imprisonment of five years on each of the three counts of the indictment.

From the indictment and from the approved stipulated statement of evidence filed as a supplemental transcript of record, it appears that, on July 19, 1943, Sheridan obtained…