United States v. Parsons
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
The defendant [Charles H. Parsons] was indicted under section 22 of the post-office act of March 3d, 1825 (4 Stat. 108), which provides that any person who shall open any letter or packet which shall have been in a post-office, or in custody of a mail-carrier, before it shall have been delivered to the person to whom it is directed, with a design to obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into another’s business or secrets, or shall secrete, embezzle or destroy any such mail,…
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The defendant [Charles H. Parsons] was indicted under section 22 of the post-office act of March 3d, 1825 (4 Stat. 108), which provides that any person who shall open any letter or packet which shall have been in a post-office, or in custody of a mail-carrier, before it shall have been delivered to the person to whom it is directed, with a design to obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into another’s business or secrets, or shall secrete, embezzle or destroy any such mail, letter or packet, shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding…
1Opinion of the Court
BETTS, District Judge.
The facts found by the special verdict are within the letter of the statute. The letters had been in a post-office, and were opened, and their contents embezzled by the defendant, before they had been delivered to the persons to whom they were directed. The special verdict, however, raises the question, whether the intent and proper construction of the 22d section of the post-office act of March 3, 1825, embraces the case.
The 41st section of the act of July 2, 1836 (5 Stat 89), gives to persons entrusted with the delivery of letters the character of mail-carriers, within…
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