Legal Opinion
Rodney Leon Alexander v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 19, 1968No. 24695_1PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
Rodney Leon Alexander appeals his conviction under a three-count indictment charging him with “stealing, abstracting, and removing” a total of $7.00 from the United States mail in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 1709. His appeal challenges the admission into evidence at his trial of six marked one-dollar bills which postal inspectors discovered in Alexander’s wallet. We deny the evi-dentiary acceptability of these bills and reverse.
During 1966 postal inspectors in San Antonio, Texas, were bedeviled by mail thefts. Their investigation subsequently focused on Rodney Leon…
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