United States v. James Davis

KERNER, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant, James Davis, was charged in a one-count indictment, “did receive, conceal and unlawfully have in his possession, knowing the same to have been stolen, having been taken and abstracted from an authorized depository for mail matter, to wit, a United States Railway Mail Car, certain parcels that bore United States postage and were then and there in the course of conveyance by mail, which parcels were addressed to: * * * in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1708.” A trial was had by the court without jury, jury being waived in open…