Legal Opinion
United States v. Ducker
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 29, 1974No. 73-3210PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:
Thomas Jackson Ducker, Jr. was found guilty by a jury of passing a counterfeit $20 bill, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 472. A codefendant, Conover, was acquitted. Ducker alleges that there was insufficient evidence to warrant a guilty verdict. He also contends that evidence, counterfeit notes and medicine bottles bearing his name, which was found in inventory searches of a car driven by Conover, should have been excluded at trial. We affirm.
Conover borrowed his girl friend’s car, and he and a hitchhiker drove from Kentucky to Jacksonville, Florida. After arriving there…
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