Madsen v. United States

HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Elmer Siles Madsen, together with Jack Aaron Burger, Gerald Theodore Fowler, William Eugene Duvall,. Qinton Otis Ransford, and Frank Nelson Madsen, were charged by count 1 of an indictment under 18 U.S.C.A. § 88 1 with a conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States in violation of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, 2 and in subsequent counts with the commission of substantive offenses. Count 1 of the indictment charged the conspiracy. It also charged the commission of thirty-three overt acts in effectuating the conspiracy. Counts 3, 5 and 8 of…