United States v. Texeira

The appellant was tried and convicted by a jury in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York on an indictment charging the theft, at Brooklyn, N. Y., of a mail truck owned by the Post Office Department of the United States in violation of the provisions of 18 U.S.C.A. § 313. He was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of eighteen months and then the execution of the sentence was suspended and he was placed upon probation for a like period.

The principal ground for reversal relied on is the assertion that the evidence before the grand jury was not sufficient to support the…