Montgomery v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr, Justice Shiras
delivered the-opinion of the court.
Thomas M. Montgomery, the plaintiff-in error, was indicted in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee, for the crime of embezzling and stealing, on March 8 and 9, 1890, certain letters containing money in United States currency, which had come into his possession as a railway postal clerk or route agent, on the railway mail route between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Bristol, Tennessee. The defendant was tried, convicted and sentenced to be confined at. hard labor for the term of two years in the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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