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LYDA v. UNITED STATES

No. 18131.

279 F.2d 461 (1960)

Gideon Pelores LYDA, alias G. P. Lyda, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 15, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Garey, Austin, Tex., for appellant.

K. Key Hoffman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Russell B. Wine, U. S. Atty., Arthur Luethcke, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for appellee.

Before CAMERON, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

The principal question here is the meaning to be attributed to "stolen" as it defines property, the interstate transportation of which is a crime under the Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 2314. Subsidiary to that are problems concerning the sufficiency of the indictment. The case comes to us after conviction on a two-count indictment. Count one charged Lyda...

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