Opinion
No. 71-1079. Summary Calendar.
Rule 18, 5th Cir.; see Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York et al., 5th Cir. 1970, 431 F.2d 409, Part I.
January 20, 1972.
Daniel S. Pearson, Alan M. Medof, Pearson Josefsberg, P. A., Miami, Fla., for Stanley Brock.
Robert W. Rust, U.S. Atty., Miami, Fla., James H. Walsh, Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Miami, Fla., for United States, Sidney M. Glazer, Shirley Baccus-Lobel, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., of counsel.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and INGRAHAM and RONEY, Circuit Judges.
Defendant, a previously convicted felon, was indicted and convicted of willfully and knowingly possessing a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. App. § 1202(a). The conviction must be reversed because the government neither alleged nor proved that the firearm was possessed "in commerce of affecting commerce," as required by the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Bass, 404 U.S. 336, 92 S.Ct. 515, 30 L.Ed.2d 488.
Reversed.