Miller v. United States

MUNGER, District Judge.

The plaintiffs were convicted on each count of an indictment, charging in four separate counts the offenses of unlawfully breaking the seal of a railroad car containing an interstate shipment of freight, of entering the car with intent to commit larceny therein, of stealing from the car goods moving as a part of an interstate shipment of freight, and of having in possession such goods, knowing them to have been stolen. Comp. St. § 8603. Plaintiff in error Miller was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment under each count, but his sentences were made to run concurrently.…