Shaw v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of- the United States for the Western District of Kentucky. George B. Shaw was convicted of secreting and embezzling a letter as a railway postal clerk, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
The defendant was indicted under the first clause of section 5467 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3691), charged with having, while he was employed by the United States as a railway postal clerk, feloni-ously secreted and embezzled a certain letter which had come into his possession by reason and because of his employment in the postal service of the United States; said letter being alleged to contain certain articles of value. A prior indictment against this defendant was considered by this court in Shaw v. United States, 165 Fed.…
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