Green v. United States

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

The appellants were separately indicted in the court below in three counts for stealing mail matter in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 317, now 18 U.S.C.A. § 1708. In count one of each indictment it was charged that the defendant named therein, on or about October 1, 1946, “did steal, take and abstract a letter containing a bank statement from the authorized mail depository of Mrs. Janet H. Jones”, of Boston. In count two of the indictments the defendants were charged with the identical offense with respect to the authorized mail depository of Sidney E. White, of Allston,…