Williams v. Louisiana

How later courts describe this case

• goods ordered with no intention to pay were stolen “once the goods were loaded on interstate carriers bound for defendants’ place of business”
• goods ordered without any intention to pay for them could be considered stolen once they were loaded on interstate carriers bound for defendant
• “[T]he violation of a statutory provision such as Article IV(e) is not sufficiently important to deny a court jurisdiction to entertain a guilty plea where the defendant fails to raise the issue in a timely manner.”