FITTS v. UNITED STATES

No. 26141.

406 F.2d 518 (1969)

John Thomas FITTS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 28, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Binion, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

Morton L. Susman, U. S. Atty., Laredo, Tex., James R. Gough, Ronald J. Blask, Malcolm R. Dimmitt, Asst. U. S. Attys., Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE and GEWIN, Circuit Judges, and PITTMAN, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

The appellant was convicted by the court sitting without a jury of the unlawful interstate transportation of a stolen car. 18 U.S.C.A. § 2312. The appellant was arrested in Texas while driving a car which it was stipulated had been stolen from a used car lot in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The appellant was identified at trial by a man named Miller. Miller had discussed the possibility of the sale of a car to the appellant for about 10 minutes before...

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