Boggs v. United States
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Appeal from the District Court of Pottawatomie Coimty; before £. F. BurweTl, District Judge. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. The defendant was tried at the March term, 1899, on an indictment containing seven counts, charging in as many different ways the same offense: that he secreted, embezzled or destroyed a package containing a registered letter that was being transmitted through the United States mails, and which had come into his possession in the regular course of his official…
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Appeal from the District Court of Pottawatomie Coimty; before £. F. BurweTl, District Judge. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. The defendant was tried at the March term, 1899, on an indictment containing seven counts, charging in as many different ways the same offense: that he secreted, embezzled or destroyed a package containing a registered letter that was being transmitted through the United States mails, and which had come into his possession in the regular course of his official duties as postmaster of Shawnee, Oklahoma Territory To this indictment the defendant filed a motion to set aside, which…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
Irwin, J.:
The first assignment of error that is urged by the plaintiff in error for a reversal' of this case, is that there was not sufficient evidence to sustain the verdict of the jury in the court below, and as an argument in support of this they refer to the fact that the prosecution rely almost entirely upon the testimony of the expert, Professor Tolman, on handwriting; and counsel give a very learned and ’ eloquent dissertion on expert testimony, and its general unreliability, which might, and probably would have had great weight with the jury, as it was their…
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