United States v. Herman Ulysses Gumbs, Jr.

CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, when arraigned on August 17, 1953 in the court below, waived indictment and pleaded guilty on *442both of two counts in an information. The first count charged the appellant, and one Williams, with the theft of a letter from an authorized hallway letter box in a building in the City of New York; and the second charged both with the unlawful possession of the contents of the same letter, knowing it to have been stolen. See, § 1708 of Title 18 U.S.C.

The appellant was then sentenced to imprisonment for six months on the first count and, imposition of sentence on…