Gene Downing v. United States

GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Gene Downing was tried by a jury and convicted in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas on a ten count indictment, the first nine counts of which alleged that he and two other named defendants unlawfully transported and caused to be transported in interstate commerce from El Paso, Texas, to San Francisco, California, certain falsely made and forged Bank of America Travelers Cheques in violation of Title 18 U.S.C.A. 2314. The tenth count charged a conspiracy in the Western District of Texas and at other places outside that district to…