UNITED STATES v. GUMBS

No. 396, Docket 24645.

246 F.2d 441 (1957)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Herman Ulysses GUMBS, Jr., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided July 11, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul W. Williams, U. S. Attorney, New York City (Album C. Martin and Robert W. Bjork, Asst. U. S. Attorneys, New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Florence M. Kelley, New York City (Jerome T. Orans and Leonard M. Leiman, of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and CHASE and HINCKS, Circuit Judges.


CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, when arraigned on August 17, 1953 in the court below, waived indictment and pleaded guilty on both 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...

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