United States v. Wight
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan
Indictment for embezzlement from the mails. On motion in arrest of judgment, and for a new trial. Defendant, Charles II. Wight, who was an employé in tho post-office at Detroit, was convicted, under Rev. St. IT. S. § 5467, of embezzling certain valuable letters, and also of stealing their contents.
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Indictment for embezzlement from the mails. On motion in arrest of judgment, and for a new trial. Defendant, Charles II. Wight, who was an employé in tho post-office at Detroit, was convicted, under Rev. St. IT. S. § 5467, of embezzling certain valuable letters, and also of stealing their contents. The first, third, and fifth counts charged him with embezzling certain letters containing money, which came into his possession in the regular course of his official duties, and were intended to be carried by letter carrier: but there was no averment in either count that the letter had not been…
1Opinion of the CourtBeown, J.
The circuit judge and myself had occasion not long since to hold that section 5467 covered tho offense of secreting and embezzling valuable letters, as well as stealing their contents. U. S. v. Atkinson, 34 Fed. Rep. 316. A similar ruling had been made by Judge Benedict in U. S. v. Pelletreau, 14 Blatchf. 126, although this case escaped our attention at the time. It is intimated in both opinions, however, that the word “and” might be implied to connect, the two clauses of the statute, and thus remove every possible doubt as to its construction. Perhaps it would have been well to have…
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