McKenzie

(charging jury.) The statute under which the indictment against the defendant was found provides that “ any person employed in any department of the postal service, who shall secrete, embezzle, or destroy any letter, packet, bag, or mail of letters intrusted to him, or which shall come into his possession, and which was intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or delivered by any mail carrier, mail messenger, route agent, letter carrier, or other person employed in any department of the postal service, or forwarded through or delivered from any post-office or branch post-office established by authority of the postmaster general, and.which shall contain any note, * * * any bank-note; * * * any such person who shall steal or take any of the things aforesaid out of any1- letter, packet, bag, or mail of letters which shall have come into his possession, either in the regular course of his official duties or in any other manner whatever, and provided the same shall not liave been delivered to the party’ to whom it is directed,-—shall bo punishable by imprisonment at hard labor for not less than o'ne year nor more than five years.” The indictment contains three counts. The first, in…