Heard v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas; Jacob Trieber, Judge. Homer Heard was convicted of stealing and carrying away from a mail and express car three interstate shipments of money, in violation of Act Feb. 13, 1913, c. 50, 37 Stat. 670 (Comp.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas; Jacob Trieber, Judge. Homer Heard was convicted of stealing and carrying away from a mail and express car three interstate shipments of money, in violation of Act Feb. 13, 1913, c. 50, 37 Stat. 670 (Comp. St. §§ 8603, 8604), and William W. Dunn was convicted of aiding, abetting, and procuring the commission of the crime, etc., and both were convicted of conspiring to commit the offense above described, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs in error, Dunn and Heard, were indicted, convicted, and sentenced in the court below. Their indictment contained two counts, the jury found them guilty on both counts, and the court upon both counts sentenced Heard to imprisonment in the peniténtiary for three years, and Dunn .to a like imprisonment for a year and a day. The first count of the indictment charged that on April 9, 1914, with intent to convert the money to his own use, Heard stole and carried away, from a mail and express car three interstate shipments in three express packages of money of…
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