UNITED STATES v. SMITH


124 U.S. 525 (1888)

UNITED STATES v. SMITH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 6, 1888.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General for the United States.

Mr. Elihu Root for defendant.


MR. JUSTICE FIELD, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The indictment in this case is in form sufficiently full and specific in its averments to embrace the offence prescribed by the statute, and yet the defendant charged is not within its provisions. He is designated as a clerk in the office of the collector of customs, and is thus shown not to be charged by an act of Congress with the safe-keeping...

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