Jones v. United States

The defendant prosecutes a writ of error to reverse a judgment of the district court of this district, convicting him for violation of section 5467 of the Devised Statutes of the United States. The second count of the indictment under which the defendant was convicted, reads as follows:

“And the grand jurors aforesaid, upon our oaths aforesaid, do further present that on the said nineteenth day of July, in the year aforesaid, said Henry Jones, being then and there a person employed in a department of the postal service of the said United States as aforesaid, did, within said division and…