Considine v. United States

DAY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was convicted of the-crime of unlawfully breaking and entering the post office at Gran-ville, Ohio, on the night of October 15, 1896. The crime is defined by section* 5478 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which is as follows':

“Any person wlio shall forcibly break into, or attempt to break into any postoffice, or any building used in whole or in part as a postoffiee, with intent to commit therein larceny or other depredation, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor for not more…