Cahill v. Biddle

MUNGER, District Judge.

Appellants were indicted in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois for violations of the Act of Congress approved Eehruary 13, 1913 (Comp. St. § 8603). In five different counts of this indictment it was alleged that they broke the seal of or entered into railroad cars containing interstate shipments of freight, with intent to commit larceny in the car, that they did commit such larceny and that they unlawfully had possession of the goods stolen from such shipments of freight, knowing them tp have been stolen. The goods were…