UNITED STATES v. WHEELER

Nos. 11156-11157.

219 F.2d 773 (1955)

The UNITED STATES of America v. Sheldon WHEELER and William McGowan.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 16, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome Berkson, Maurice A. Winkler, Gerald Wiley, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Robert Tieken, U. S. Atty., Anna R. Lavin, John Peter Lulinski, Asst. U. S. Attys., Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for appellee.

Before DUFFY, Chief Judge, and FINNEGAN and SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judges.


DUFFY, Chief Judge.

In Counts 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the indictment defendants Wheeler and McGowan were each charged with violating the Dyer Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 2311 et seq., in that each of them transported or caused to be transported in interstate commerce an automobile described in the indictment, knowing the same to have been stolen. Count 6 charged a conspiracy to violate the same statute. Count 2 charged the transportation of a stolen 1950 Chrysler from Chicago...

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