United States v. Mills
Supreme Court of the United States
ON a certificate of division from the circuit court of the United States for the district of North Carolina. The defendant was indicted at the term of November 1832 of the circuit court, for an offence against the post office laws passed on the 2d of March 1824, entitled, “ an act to reduce into one act the several acts establishing and regulating the post office department.”
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ON a certificate of division from the circuit court of the United States for the district of North Carolina. The defendant was indicted at the term of November 1832 of the circuit court, for an offence against the post office laws passed on the 2d of March 1824, entitled, “ an act to reduce into one act the several acts establishing and regulating the post office department.” The indictment contained two counts. ' The first count charged that the defendant did, “ at Fayetteville, on the 1st June 1832, procure, advise and assist Joseph I. Straughan to secrete, embezzle and destroy a mail of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
The defendant was indicted in the circuit court of the United States for the district of North Carolina, under the twenty-fourth section of the act of 1825, entitled “an act .to reduce into one, the several acts establishing and regulating the post office department” (7 Laws U. S. 377), which declares “that every person, who, from and after the passing of this act, shall procure and advise, or assist in the doing or perpetration of any of the acts or crimes by this act forbiden, shall be subject to the same penalties and punishments as the persons are subject to who shall actually do or…
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