United States v. Cecil B. Moore

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

The defendant, a lawyer and member of the Philadelphia City Council, was convicted of a petty offense and fined $25 upon a charge that he had in his possession in his brief case a loaded revolver as he attempted to go through a check point preliminarily to boarding a plane at Washington National Airport. At the trial before a magistrate, he sought to defend upon the ground that he had thought that he had placed the loaded revolver in a suitcase which he had earlier checked at a ticket counter and that it was not in the brief case. The brief case contained only currency…