UNITED STATES v. MESSINA

No. 209, Docket 31255.

388 F.2d 393 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. v. Benjamin MESSINA and Jack Alwadish, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 2, 1968.

Certiorari Denied April 22, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Kaye, Brooklyn (Abraham Glasser, New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

Samuel J. Heyman, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Jon O. Newman, U. S. Atty. for the District of Connecticut, on the brief), for appellee.

Before MOORE, SMITH and HAYS, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied April 22, 1968. See 88 S.Ct. 1413.

HAYS, Circuit Judge:

Benjamin Messina and Jack Alwadish were convicted after a jury trial on several counts of transporting and selling stolen motor vehicles in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2312 and 2313, and they appeal. We affirm the judgments of conviction.

Appellants first challenge the sufficiency of the evidence. The government's principal witness was Albert E. Farrah, a Connecticut...

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