265 F. 617 | 8th Cir. | 1920
Error from conviction for violation of the Act of February 13, 1913 (37 Stat. 670, U. S. Compiled Statutes 1916, § 8603), by stealing and by having in possession with guilty knowledge 49 cases of whisky taken from an interstate
“That on or about the 25th day of April, 1918, at the city of St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, and within the division and district aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of the court aforesaid, Joseph Fleck, Robert Wetzel, Thomas .Dodd, R. J. Murray, whose Christian name is to the grand jurors unknown, Charles Murphy, and John Vaughn did knowingly, willfully, and feloniously take, steal, and carry away from a railroad box car bearing the initials C. C. C. & St. L. and numbered 47400, which -was standing in the railroad yards east of Broadway and near Brooklyn street, in said city, with the intent then and there to convert the same to their own use, certain goods and chattels moving as and constituting a part of an interstate shipment of freight, to wit, forty-nine cases of whisky, which had theretofore been shipped by .Rock Springs Distilling Company, from Owensboro, in the state of Kentucky, and which was then and there moving to Main Liquor Hquse, at Granger, in the state of Texas; the shipment aforesaid being then and there in the custody of the St. Louis Merchants’ Bridge Terminal Railway Company, a corporation of Missouri, as bailee and common carrier.”
The judgments are affirmed.