United States v. Patterson

WILKINS, District Judge.

The motion made to arrest the judgment in this case is founded principally on two reasons1st. That the offense is not described in the indictment with sufficient certainty and precision. 2d. That no offense is charged against the defendant in the last four counts.

1. The offense in the fifth count is described thus:—“That Charles Patterson, a person employed in one of the departments of the post office establishment of the United States, a certain letter which came to the possession' .'of him, the said Patterson, and which was intended to be conveyed by post, and…