Court Opinion

ID: 9771615
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 16:48:59.893641+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:33.903068
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On Petition to Rehear.
HOWARD, J.
The defendant, Inter-City Trucking Company, has filed a petition to rehear alleging that its *460witness Don Lee Tinker never admitted in Ms testimony that during the latter part of November, 1947, he and William Manning* stole a carton of ladies rayon slips from the defendant’s terminal where they were, employed at the time. We quote the following excerpts from the' testimony of Tinker:
“By Mr. Cunningham:
“ Q. I will ask you if you formerly worked at the Inter-City Trucking Company? A. Yes.
“Q. Here in Chattanooga? A. (Witness nods affirmatively.)
“Q. Were you working there in December, 1947? A. I was.
“Q. Was William Manning-also working there at that time? A. Yes, sir.
“Q. There has been introduced into this record an information in the 17. S. District Court here by the Attorney General — by the United States Attorney, charging you with taking from the docks of the InterCity Trucking Company 60' dozen white ladies slips in the value of $1,389.60' I will- ask you whether or not you did that? A. (Witness nods negatively.)
“Mr. Buchanan: -I object-to that question. The record here is he plead guilty to it and was sentenced.
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“Mr. Cunningham: He wasn’t under .oath-at the time he pleaded guilty.
“The Court: The Court will advise him.
“Mr. Tinker, there has been introduced in this record a certified copy from the Federal Court ah information against - you- charging - you with certain thefts to which.you plead-guilty and were sentenced to .two ye.ars in- -the penitentiary. ,
*461‘ ‘ The Witness: that is right.
“Q. (By Mr. Cunningham) Go ahead and answer the Court, yon started to say something. A. I plead guilty of being with a fellow, not of taking the merchandise.
“Q. Who was the fellow that yon mentioned? A. Bill Manning.
“Q. William Manning? A. That’s right.
“Q. Was the package he picked np this 60'-dozen carton of underwear? A. That’s right.
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“Q. Yon were convicted in the Federal Court for this action, were yon not? A. That is right.
“Q. And yon served some time in the penitentiary, did yon not? A. That’s right.
“Q. Or were yon probated?
“Mr. Cunningham: He wasn’t convicted. He plead guilty over there.
“Q. (By Mr. Buchanan) What happened to yon in Federal Court? A. I was convicted.
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‘ ‘ Q. I show yon the first count, I will read to yon this first count of the official file of the Federal Court and ask yon if that is the matter to which yon plead guilty. ‘On or about the 1st day of December, 1947, within the Southern Division of the Eastern District of Tennessee, the defendant, Don Lee Tinker, with intent to convert same to his own use, stole from off the dock of the Inter-City Trucking Company, 1416 Fort Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 60 dozen white, ladies slips of the value of $1,389.60, which were then *462and there moving as and which were a part of and which constituted an interstate shipment of freight, then and there moving in interstate commerce from Adamsville, Tennessee, to Easton, Pennsylvania, and which then and there remained 'undelivered to consignee.’ Did you plead guilty to that? A. Yes, I plead guilty.”
The slight variance in the evidence as to when the shipment was stolen is not material as (1) there was only one carton of rayon slips stolen from the defendant by Tinker, et al., and (2) the information charged that this occurred “on or about the 1st day of December, 1947.”
Petition to rehear will be denied.
Me A mis, P. J., and Hale, J., concur.