Pakas v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the East■ern District of New York. Victor Palcas was convicted of knowingly receiving property stolen from the mails, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, has been convicted under an indictment charging him and one Samuel Broder at various times between August 30, 1915, and September 30, 1915, with knowingly, willfully, unlawfully, and feloni-ously buying and receiving certain specified checks taken from certain mail matter which had been previously stolen from mail which had been deposited in the mail of the United States. Broder pleaded guilty to the indictment and became a witness for the government.
It appears that the defendant in September, 1915, was in desperate…
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