United States v. Campbell

Section 5478 of the Revised Statutes provides that “any person who shall forcibly break into, or attempt to break into, any post-office, or any building used in whole or in part as a post-office, with intent to commit therein larceny or other depredation, shall be punishable” as therein provided. On October 20, 1882, an indictment was found by the grand jury of this district charging the defendant, on December 21,1880, with forcibly breaking into a building at Oregon City, in this district, “which building was then and there used in part as a post-office of the United States, with the intent…