United States v. Falkenhainer
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
Error to the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Indictment against a postai clerk for stealing letters from a postal car. The defendant was found guilty -in the district court of stealing a number of letters from a postal car as charged, part of which contained and are stated in the indictment to have contained two one-dollar United States treasury notes each.
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Error to the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Indictment against a postai clerk for stealing letters from a postal car. The defendant was found guilty -in the district court of stealing a number of letters from a postal car as charged, part of which contained and are stated in the indictment to have contained two one-dollar United States treasury notes each. The indictment gives the names of the parties to whom the letters were addressed, but does not allege the ownership either of the letters.or their contents.
1Opinion of the CourtBrewer, J.
The defendant was convicted in the district court, under section 5469 of the Revised Statutes, of stealing and taking from a postal car certain letters, and sentenced to hard labor for a term of two years. A bill of exceptions was signed, a writ of error allowed, and the case is now in this court for review. Several questions have been ably and elaborately argued by counsel. I shall notice the most important.
1. It is insisted that th,e section prescribed no punishment for the offense charged, and the case of U. S. v. Long, 10 Fed. Rep. 879, decided by Circuit Judge Pardee, is cited as…
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