United States v. Dickey

An indictment was returned in the court below charging defendants in error as owner-editor and managing editor of several newspapers published at Kansas City, Missouri, with printing and publishing therein parts of certain designated federal income-tax returns, showing the names of the tax payers and the amounts of their income taxes; Demurrers were interposed to the indictment upon the ground that the facts set forth were not sufficient in lawi to charge any crime against the defendants, because the information so published was open to'public inspection, constituted a public record available…