United States v. Butch

VAN DUSEN, District Judge.

This case comes before- the court on defendant’s post-trial motion for judgment of acquittal and, in the alternative, for a new trial, filed after a jury returned a verdict of guilty on both counts under which he was tried.

Defendant was indicted in the fifth and sixth counts of an Indictment for possessing and receiving, respectively, stolen goods (102 tires), knowing them to have been stolen, in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 659.1 Three co-defendants were *680charged in the first two counts of the Indictment with having stolen and possessed these 102 tires in violation of…