DURLAND v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 528, 529.

161 U.S. 306 (1896)

DURLAND v. UNITED STATES. SAME v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1896.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James M. Beck and Mr. Hampton L. Carson for plaintiff in error. Mr. William F. Harrity was on their brief.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Whitney and Mr. John L. Thomas, Assistant Attorney General for the Post Office Department, for the defendants in error.


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

Inasmuch as the testimony has not been preserved, we must assume that it was sufficient to substantiate the charges in the indictments; that this was a scheme and artifice to defraud, and that the defendant did not intend that the bonds should mature, or that although money was received any should be returned, but that it should be appropriated to his own use. In other words, he was trying...

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