ARMSTRONG v. UNITED STATES

No. 12739.

187 F.2d 954 (1951)

ARMSTRONG v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

As Amended April 26, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cecil Armstrong, in propria persona, for appellant.

Frank J. Hennessy, U. S. Atty., R. H. Colvin and Macklin Fleming, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and ORR and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


ORR, Circuit Judge.

In the year 1949 appellant entered a plea of guilty to four counts of an indictment. Each count charged that appellant "did steal, take and abstract from and out of an authorized depository for mail matter, to-wit, (a certain) house letter box * * * a (certain) letter * * *." The charges were brought under Sec. 1708, 18 U.S.C.A.

The trial court sentenced appellant to serve five years on the first count and three years on the remaining three...

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