Farnum v. United States
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to District Court, First Judicial District. The indictment was entitled, “The district court of the United States of America, within and for the first judicial district of Colorado territory, of the term of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
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Error to District Court, First Judicial District. The indictment was entitled, “The district court of the United States of America, within and for the first judicial district of Colorado territory, of the term of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy. At a regular term of the district court of the United States of America, within and for the first judicial district of Colorado territory, begun and held at Denver City, on the fourteenth day of June,” etc., etc. The defendant below moved to quash the indictment, upon the ground that it was entitled of a .court not…
1Opinion of the Court
'Beleord, J.
The defendant was indicted at the July term, 1869, of the Arapahoe district court, for secreting and embezzling one package of letters and two sacks of gold, dust, with which he had been intrusted, as mail earlier, and which were intended to be conveyed by post. There are seven counts, in the indictment, all charging the same-offense, but in the first, sixth and seventh counts, the defendant is charged as a carrier of the mail on the route from Fairplay to Helena, and as being then and there a person employed in a department of the post-office establishment *311of the United States.…
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