United States v. Hartwell
Supreme Court of the United States
On certificate of division in opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts. .The defendant was indicted in that court at Boston, for embezzlement. The indictment contained ten counts.
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On certificate of division in opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts. .The defendant was indicted in that court at Boston, for embezzlement. The indictment contained ten counts. The first three were founded upon the sixteenth section of the act of August 6th, 1846, known as the Sub-Treasury Act.* This act in its fifth section provides for the appointment of “ four officers,” to be denominated assistant treasurers, at Boston and three other places named. It had already in a third section — after referring to certain buildings, rooms and safes in New…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
This case comes before us upon a certificate of division in opinion of the judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
As disclosed in the record the case is as follows:
The defendant was indicted for embezzlement. The in*392dictment contains ten counts. The first three are founded upon the sixteenth .section of the act of August 6th, 1846, the remaining seven upon the third section of the act of June 14th, 1866.. The counts upon the act of 1846 allege that the defend- ’ ant, being an officer of the United States, to wit, a clerk in the office of the…
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