United States v. James Peter Edmonson, Jr., and Edward Paul

TATE, Circuit Judge:

The defendants Edmonson and Paul were convicted on eight counts of unlawful possession of stolen mail. 18 U.S.C. § 1708. They were sentenced to consecutive terms on each count. The prosecution arises out of the theft by the defendants of eight pieces of mail, each the subject of a separate count, from three mail boxes — i. e., six of the mail items were stolen from the same mail box at the same time.

The defendants contend, and the government now concedes, that the possession of the six pieces of mail stolen at the same time could properly have been the subject of only one…