United States v. Martin
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana
Indictment [against William Martin] for abstracting a letter .from the mail, contain- • ing bank notes. Motion to quash the indictment, because it does not alledge that the letter was mailed, or regularly put into the United States mail.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLMAN, District Judge.
The indictment alledges that the letter, containing bank notes, was put into the postoffice to be conveyed by post, and was being conveyed by post, and came into the custody and possession of the defendant, as driver of the mailstage. This allegation is sufficient. The act of congress states that, “if any person employed in any department of the postoffice establishment, shall secrete, embezzle or destroy any letter, mail, or bag of letters, with which he shall be intrusted, or which shall have come to his possession, and are intended to be conveyed by post, containing…
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