United States v. Mayfield
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Louisiana
Indictment for taking, from a letter depository box, a letter containing money. On motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
BOARMAX, District Judge.
The defendant was tried and found guilty, a few days ago, under an indictment, substantially, for feloniously taking a letter from one of the letter depository boxes in this city, containing certain obligations, securities of the United States, in Violation of Rev. St. § 5469. Defendant pleaded not guilty, and offered no evidence on the trial. The government relied for a conviction alone on the confessions made by defendant after his arrest to the police officers. It seems that he confessed that he had fished a letter from one of the mail depository boxes with a piece…
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- Cleek v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1935
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