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Title: United States v. Mcneal
Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Release Date : January 22, 1972
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 56 KB

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Albert McNeal appeals his conviction and two-year sentence imposed following a jury verdict finding him guilty of a violation of 18 U.S.C. Â§ 1708 (possession of stolen mail). We affirm. A welfare check was mailed by the Warrant Section of the Division of Family Services, State of Florida, to Allene Hamilton, who never received it. She did not authorize anyone to pick it up for her or to endorse it. A tenant in Mrs. Hamilton's building observed one Willie Billue take the check in question from the mailbox and leave the apartment building in the company of McNeal and another unidentified individual. McNeal was standing close to Billue. An identification specialist with the United States Secret Service testified that McNeal's right palm print was found on the back of the check and a document analyst with the office of the Examiner of Questioned Documents, Department of Treasury, testified that in his opinion it was ""highly probable,"" which to him meant ""virtually certain,"" that the Allene Hamilton endorsement which appeared on the back of the check was written by McNeal. Finally, a United States Secret Service agent testified that on November 30, 1970, McNeal told him that the check had been stolen from the mail by Billue and that he had taken the check from Billue and endorsed Allene Hamilton's signature on it. McNeal told the agent that he had gotten a girl to cash the check and split the proceeds with her.