Spears v. United States

PAIR, Associate Judge:

After trial by a jury, appellant was found guilty on a five-count information charging that he embezzled1 and converted to his own use money, property of the United States. On this appeal, appellant makes several claims of error but finding, after a review of the record, that none is of such substance as to require reversal, we affirm.

At the time of the acts complained of, appellant was employed at the Government Printing Office as a mail processing clerk. His duties were to (1) remove, from mail orders for Government publications, any money forwarded with the order, (2)…