United States v. Nathan

SHIRAS, District Judge.

The indictment in this case is based upon the second section of the act of congress approved September 26, 1888 (25 Stat. 496), and charges that the defendant did knowingly deposit in the post office of the United States, at the town of G-ranvelle, Sioux county, Iowa, for mailing and delivery, a certain envelope, containing an obscene, lewd, and indecent letter. The demurrer presents the question whether the mailing an obscene letter inclosed in an envelope is within the inhibition of the statute if nothing obscene, indecent, or improper is written upon the outside of…