United States v. McCready
District Court, W.D. Tennessee
Indictment. The indictment in this ease contains two counts. The first charges that defendant, at a certain time and place, unlawfully “did take a certain letter then addressed to one Lottie Amis, '* * * and which had been in the United States post-office at said Memphis before the said letter had been delivered to the said Lettie Amis, to whom it was then and there addressed and directed, then and there with the design of her, the said Harriet McCready, to obstruct the…
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Indictment. The indictment in this ease contains two counts. The first charges that defendant, at a certain time and place, unlawfully “did take a certain letter then addressed to one Lottie Amis, '* * * and which had been in the United States post-office at said Memphis before the said letter had been delivered to the said Lettie Amis, to whom it was then and there addressed and directed, then and there with the design of her, the said Harriet McCready, to obstruct the correspondence of the said Lettie Amis, the said letter not then and there containing any article of value or evidence…
1Opinion of the Court
Hammond, D. J.
The question for the consideration of the court in this case is whether, under the facts found by the jury in their special verdict, the defendant is guilty, as charged in this indictment, or has violated the provisions of the statute under which it is drawn. The indictment charges the offence literally in the words of the statute, and the special verdict finds all the material allegations of both counts to be true.
But it is insisted for the defendant that these facts do not constitute a violation of the statute, because, as the letter was taken by the defendant after its…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- United States v. HallSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Spofford v. KirkSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Ostrander v. Brown & StaffordNew York Supreme Court · 1818
- Price v. . PowellNew York Court of Appeals · 1850
- United States v. WoodU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania · 1818
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- Hinkle v. Railway Express AgencySupreme Court of Alabama · 1942
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