United States v. Pacific Express Co.

Foster, L,

(charging jury orally.) This case, as presented by the evidence, is essentially one resting upon facts, and upon the facts as *868established by the evidence you are to render your verdict. The United States alleges in its petition that on or about the ninth of Jahuary, 1880, at the city of Leavenworth, by its authorized agent, it placed in the custody of'the defendant, the Pacific Express Company, an iron safe, containing moneys of the United States to the amount of about $26,000, for the purpose of having the same shipped to Wellington, in the state of Kansas, and there to be…