Charles Dewitt Whiteside v. United States

MATTHES, Circuit Judge.

Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 1708 makes it unlawful for any person to have in his possession “any letter, * * * or mail, or any article or thing contained therein * * * ” which has been stolen or abstracted from the mail, knowing the same to have been stolen, taken or abstracted. Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 495 provides that whoever utters or publishes as true any false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, with intent to defraud the United States, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged or counterfeited shall be guilty of an offense and subject to the penalty prescribed in…