UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Thomas DUVALL and Henry Jones, Defendants-Appellants

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

Thomas Duvall and Henry Jones appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York convicting them, after a verdict, on a count of conspiring to possess stolen mail and to utter United States Treasury checks bearing forged endorsements in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 and on substantive counts charging possession of stolen mail and uttering forged Treasury checks in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 495 and 1708. The Government’s claim was that the defendants, who operated a series of grocery and food-related stores in Harlem, including “The…