United States v. Mason
District Court, D. Massachusetts
The following is a copy of the indictment in case No. 45: “The United States of America. “At a District Court of the United States of America, for the District of Massachusetts, begun and holden at Boston, within and for said district, on the first Tuesday of December in the year of our Dord one thousand nine hundred and nine. “First Count.
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The following is a copy of the indictment in case No. 45: “The United States of America. “At a District Court of the United States of America, for the District of Massachusetts, begun and holden at Boston, within and for said district, on the first Tuesday of December in the year of our Dord one thousand nine hundred and nine. “First Count. The jurors for the United States of America, within and for the District of Massachusetts, upon their oath, present that Frank H. Mason, of Boston, in said district, during all of the year nineteen hundred and eight was, and ever since then has been, an…
1Opinion of the CourtPutnam, Circuit Judge
(orally). I will first take up the indictments relating to the alleged embezzlement of moneys, -which I think •are Nos. 45, 46, and 47. There are two classes of counts here. . Counts 2, 3, and 4 relate specifically to surplus fees and emoluments of the clerk of the United States District Court, and as such clerk he* is charged by those counts with embezzling that surplus. The other counts cover a disposition of funds in his hands without alleging the origin of them; but they all charge embezzlement. The expression “to embezzle” was settled in the Court of Appeals for this circuit as…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- United States v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- United States v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Dickinson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1908
- Jewett v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1900
- United States v. MasonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1904
3Cited by2 opinions
- Peck v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1933
- United States v. Lawrence D. DupeeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1978