Legal Opinion
United States v. Edward Lee Jackson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 8, 1971No. 30939PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:
The appellant, Edward Lee Jackson, was convicted on two counts of obstructing the United States Mails by taking letters before they had been delivered to the persons to whom they had been addressed, 18 U.S.C. § 1702. The jury acquitted him of one count and the prosecution voluntarily dismissed another. We affirm the convictions.
Jackson was arrested shortly after midnight of a Thursday by Sergeant Simmons of the Mobile Police Department. He was charged with vagrancy pursuant to an investigation of a local offense, the forgery of a cheek. One Patricia Smith had implicated…
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