United States v. Belew
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia
The prisoner [Soloman Belew] was indicted for secreting and embezzling sundry letters, and stealing therefrom divers bank notes, which had come into his hands as the carrier of the mail of the United States, between Charlottesville, in Virginia, and Richmond, in the same state, and the jury found the prisoner guilty. The counsel for the prisoner then moved in arrest of judgment, oil the ground stated in the following opinion:
1Opinion of the Court
■ MARSHALL, Circuit Justice.
The prisoner is convicted under the eighteenth section of the “Act regulating the post-office establishment,” — Act April 30, 1810 (2 Story’s Laws, 1156 [2 Stat. 592]), repealed by Act 1825, c. 275 [3 Story’s Laws, 19S5; 4 Stat. 102, c. 64], — and the question submitted to the consideration of the court, is, whether a carrier of the mail be, “a person employed m any of the departments of the general post-office.” To answer this question, it becomes necessary to settle the meaning of the word “department,” as used in the act of congress. One. of its significations,…
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