Therman McGriff v. United States

Appellant appeals from a judgment of conviction, resulting from a jury trial on an indictment charging a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641, in that the appellant did “receive, conceal and retain, with intent to convert to his own use and gain, stolen goods and property of the United States, of a value in excess of $100.00. * * * ”.

18 U.S.C. § 641 uses the words “receives, conceals or retains” in the disjunctive. The indictment uses them in the conjunctive. “[I]t is * * * proper to charge conjunctively the elements of a crime which is denounced disjunctively in the statute, and a finding of any one…