Perara v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas; Jacob Trieber, Judge. Mitchell C. Perara was convicted of an offense, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted in the District Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Eastern District of Arkansas for abstracting and stealing money from a letter intrusted to him as a railway postal clerk to be carried from Winnfield, La., over his mail route, to Little Rock, Ark., on the way to its destination, at Chicago, Ill., in violation of section 195 of the Revised Criminal Code as charged in the first count of an indictment found against him. That section is in substance this:
“Whoever, being a postmaster or other person…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- People v. GarciaCalifornia Supreme Court · 1864
- In re RichterDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1900
- State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1898
- Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
- Mccoy v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905
3Cited by4 opinions
- Morris v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1916
- Spear v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1917
- Perara v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1916
- Murphy v. New York & Cuba Mail S. S. Co.District Court, District of Columbia · 1921