John T. Delbridge v. United States

PRETTYMAN, Chief Judge.

Appellant Delbridge was indicted, tried and convicted for entering a store belonging to a partnership of two named persons and stealing $1,125.66. He had been employed at the store, and after the night of the crime he disappeared from the Washington area. Some three years later he told a sheriff in California that he believed he was wanted in the District of Columbia for the theft of $1,175 from the named store.1 The difference between the actual amount of the theft ($1,125.66) and the amount Delbridge mentioned to the sheriff ($1,175) is critical.

Upon his trial…