McKinney v. United States

The appellant was convicted after trial before a jury upon each of two counts of an information charging unlawful possession and concealment with intent to defraud of a certain falsely altered obligation of the United States, to-wit: split Federal Reserve notes, the first count referring to a split fifty dollar note and the second count to a split twenty dollar note, each count charging that the respective “note had been split by separating the face or front from the back or reverse side thereof.”

From a judgment of conviction on both counts and identical sentences to run concurrently this appeal was taken.

Each count in the information charged a violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 265 . (§ 265 has since been revised, effective September 1, 1948, as § 472, Title 18 of New Criminal Code.)

The appellant in this appeal designated thirteen alleged errors under “Specification of Errors” in his opening brief but the argument confined itself to only three, as follows: “1. The Information was fatally defective in that it omitted a material allegation. 2. Conviction, based ■ on Information, was improper. 3. The Verdict was not supported by the evidence.”

The appellant .in the trial court chose…