United States v. Shelton

SIMON TON, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was indicted, under section 5478 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for breaking into a building used in part as a post office, with intent to commit larceny therein. Upon his trial the witnesses for the government testified: That the building in which was the post office was used also as a store for the sale of merchandise. That the post office was on the same floor, and in the same room, — not railed off. That it was on the side of this room, occupying a small space therein. That, the morning of a day stated in the indictment, a window of…