Conway v. United States

ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs in error Conway and Dalton were tried on two indictments, consolidated for trial — one charging them with making with a dangerous weapon an assault on one La Mott, a mail messenger, having in his custody registered packages of mail of great value, and putting his life in jeopardy, with the intent to rob La Mott of the registered packages of mail, and to steal same; the other, with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States of stealing the registered mail packages above described from the United States while they were being conveyed by La…