Thompson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of California; Olin Wellborn, Judge. Fred H. Thompson was convicted of having unlawfully received and concealed and assisted another in concealing money stolen from the United States mails, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error, an attorney at law practicing at Los Angeles, Cal., defended Orlando F. Altorre in a case in which Altorre was indicted for stealing $15,000 in currency from the mails of the United States. Altorre was employed in the registry division of the post office at Los Angeles. In June, 1909, he stole from the mail two packages of currency which had come into his possession as registry clerk, one containing $10,000 and the other $5,000. Altorre was convicted on the indictment for stealing from the mails, also on an indictment for perjury, and was…
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