UNITED STATES v. SPOONE

Nos. 81-5260(L), 81-5261 to 81-5265.

741 F.2d 680 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. James Lee SPOONE, Sr., Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. James Lee SPOONE, Jr., Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Michael Elbin SPOONE, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Kenneth Howard BATES, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Richard VAN BAEL, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Juliette GAY, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 8, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jan S. Strifling, Jack B. Swerling, Richard M. Kennedy, III, John R. Lester, Columbia, S.C. (J. Edward Holler, Columbia, S.C., O.W. Bannister, Jr., Greenville, S.C., on brief), for appellants.

Marvin J. Caughman, Asst. U.S. Atty., Columbia, S.C. (Henry Dargan McMaster, U.S. Atty., Columbia, S.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, MURNAGHAN and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges.


SPROUSE, Circuit Judge.

James L. Spoone, Sr., Michael E. Spoone, James L. (Rusty) Spoone, Jr., Kenneth Howard Bates, Juliette Gay, and Richard Van Bael were tried together and convicted by a jury of a variety of charges stemming from their participation in an auto-theft conspiracy. Individually and variously, they challenge their convictions of conspiracy to transport in interstate commerce motor vehicles they knew to have been stolen, in violation of 18 U.S.C. &...

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