WRIGHT v. UNITED STATES

No. 20478.

356 F.2d 261 (1966)

Allen Eli WRIGHT, Edward Hugh Wuensche, Arnold D. Naidich, and Willard L. Richardson, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 28, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Sidney Johnston, Jr., Biloxi, Miss., Clyde W. Woody, Robert L. Sonfield, C. Anthony Friloux, Jr., Houston, Tex., for appellants.

William M. Schultz, Asst. U. S. Atty., James R. Gough, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., Woodrow Seals, U. S. Atty., Fred L. Hartman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and CHRISTENBERRY, District Judge.


CHRISTENBERRY, District Judge:

In July, 1961, the farm home of Israel Greenberg and his son Samuel, in Mount Holly, N. J., was burglarized. Included in the loot were eight United States Treasury 4% registered bonds, each having a face value of $10,000.00. A year after the burglary, in July 1962, at the Summit Hotel, in New York City, one Di Fonzo sold the bonds to Edward Hugh Wuensche for the sum of $8,000.00.

Subsequently, Wuensche learned that the bonds...

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