Odger's English Common Law

358 LARCENY.
Office or mail, any postal packet in course of trans-
mission by post ; or
(3) steals any chattel, money or valuable security out of a
postal packet in course of transmission by post ; or
(4) stops a mail with intent to rob the mail
shall be-guilty of felony and on conviction thereof liable to
penal servitude for life." 1 " Every person who, being an
officer of the Post Office, steals or embezzles a postal packet
in course of transmission by post shall be guilty of felony and
on conviction thereof liable
—
(a) if the postal packet contains any chattel, money or
valuable security, to penal servitude for life :
(b) in all other cases to penal servitude for any term not
exceeding seven years." 2
Any one who " knowingly and wilfully aids, abets,
counsels, procures or commands the commission of an
offence" against the Larceny Act, 1916, may be indicted
and tried as a principal offender. 3
1 S. 12, re-enacting the Post Office Act, 1908 (8 Edw. VII. c. 48), s. 50.
" S. 18 ; and see 8 Edw. VII. c. 48, s. 55.
8 S. 35.
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