mcboyle argued decided march harry brown guthrie petitioner attorney general clauder branch providence justice holmes delivered opinion petitioner convicted transporting ottawa illinois guymon oklahoma airplane knew stolen sentenced serve three years imprisonment pay fine judgment affirmed circuit appeals tenth circuit writ certiorari granted question whether national motor vehicle theft act applies aircraft act october stat code title usca act provides used act term vehicle shall include automobile automobile truck automobile wagon motor cycle vehicle designed running rails sec whoever shall transport cause transported interstate foreign commerce motor vehicle knowing stolen shall punished fine imprisonment five years section defines motor vehicles transportation interstate commerce punished section question meaning word phrase vehicle designed running rails doubt etymologically possible use word signify conveyance working land water air sometimes legislation extends use direction land air water separately provided tariff act september stat usca everyday speech calls picture thing moving land thus rev usca intended government suggests rather enlarge restrict definition vehicle includes every contrivance capable used means transportation land repeated expressly excluding aircraft tariff act june stat usca phrase discussion calls popular picture including automobile truck automobile wagon motor cycle words vehicle designed running rails still indicate vehicle popular sense vehicle running land theme vehicle runs something commonly called vehicle flies airplanes well known statute passed admitted mentioned reports debates congress impossible read words carefully enumerate different forms motor vehicles reference kind aircraft including airplanes term usage precisely confines different class counsel petitioner shown phraseology statute motor vehicles follows earlier statutes connecticut delaware ohio michigan missouri mention late regulations traffic district columbia title none supposed leave earth although likely criminal carefully consider text law murders steals reasonable fair warning given world language common world understand law intends certain line passed make warning fair far possible line clear rule conduct laid words evoke common mind pleture vehicles moving land statute extended aircraft simply may seem us similar policy applies upon speculation legislature thought likely picture vehicles moving land bhagat singhthi nd judgment reversed