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UNITED STATES v. SCARBROUGH

No. 72-1864.

470 F.2d 166 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John Warren SCARBROUGH, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

December 6, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter H. Smurr, Carmichael, Cal., for defendant-appellant.

Dwayne Keyes, U. S. Atty., Brewster Q. Morgan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Sacramento, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TRASK and CHOY, Circuit Judges, and TALBOT SMITH, District Judge.

TRASK, Circuit Judge:

John W. Scarbrough appeals from a judgment of conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 472, uttering counterfeit obligations. Appellant was convicted of having altered a one-dollar bill to resemble and pass as a twenty-dollar bill. This deception was accomplished by tearing off the ends of a one-dollar bill and replacing them with the ends of a twenty. Appellant then took the mutilated twenty (less the ends) to a bank in order to receive...

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