UNITED STATES v. HINES

No. 285, Docket 24677.

256 F.2d 561 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Irving HINES, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided June 18, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benson H. Begun, New York City, for defendant-appellant.

Morton J. Schlossberg, Asst. U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y. (Cornelius W. Wickersham, Jr., U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and LUMBARD and WATERMAN, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Chief Judge.

The defendant was convicted by a jury on three counts of a four-count indictment which charged him with possessing, forging, and uttering a stolen United States Treasury check in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1708 and 495. The jury acquitted him on the first count, which charged unlawful possession of another such check. He was sentenced to three years on each count, the sentences to run concurrently. Both here and below the defendant was...

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