United States v. Sander

(charging jury). This is an issue, upon a plea of not guilty, to an indictment founded upon the last clause of the 22d section of the act entitled “An act to reduce into one the several acts establishing and regulating the post office department,” of March 3, 1825 [4 Stat. 102]. By this clause of the statute it is provided, “that if any person shall take any letter or packet not containing any article of value or evidence thereof, out of a post office, or shall open any letter or packet which shall have been in a post office, or in custody of a mail carrier, before it shall be delivered to…