BY THE COURT. If it can be proved, that the copy of the letter now produced, was one of those copies, which were actually circulated at the time of the insurrection, it is admissible evidence: but, otherwise, it cannot be read to the Jury.
II. The Attorney of the District offered testimony to prove, that, in the course of the insurrection, the prisoner joined in robbing the public mail of the United States; and that several of the letters, thus intercepted, had been...
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