Legal Opinion
Roth v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 4, 1923No. 3877PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff in error (hereinafter called defendant) was convicted under an indictment charging him, while employed in the United States post office at Cleveland, Ohio, with stealing and removing from a certain letter $3.50 in currency and coin, with intent fo convert the same to his own use; the indictment alleging that the letter and its contents had been intrusted to defendant, and had come into his possession as such postal employe, and that it and its contents were intended to be conveyed by mail. The letter was a “decoy” or test letter, the address being fictitious.…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Hale v. HenkelSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Blair v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Burton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Horning v. District of ColumbiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Starr v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
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3Cited by21 opinions
- United States v. KellyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1932
- Kreiner v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1926
- Stassi v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1931
- Mannix v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1944
- United States v. MeltzerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1938
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