Shuman v. United States

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff in error, hereafter called defendant, was convicted on an indictment charging him with unlawfully and knowingly receiving and concealing certain government property, to wit, ten brass hub propeller nuts, which had theretofore been stolen from the United States by two named persons.

In the course of the trial one of those named as having stolen the property was offered as a witness by the government, and after testifying that he had been arrested by a government officer, Osborne, was asked the question:

“Did you tell Mr. Osborne what you did with the nuts ?”

This…