Hanish v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division-of the Northern District of Illinois; Julian-W. Mack, judge. Otoman Zar Adusht Hanish was convicted, and brings error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division-of the Northern District of Illinois; Julian-W. Mack, judge. Otoman Zar Adusht Hanish was convicted, and brings error. Defendant was convicted on three counts of sending by express from Chicago to Brookfield, Mo., on February 24, 1912, an obscene book, directed to Miss J. B. Gardner, and on three other counts of sending by express the same book March 22, 1009, to Julia 15. Gardner, at the same place. There is no such person as Miss J. B. Gardner or Julia B. Gardner. The shipments were made pursuant to decoy letters…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] Strenuous objection was made to the reading in the presence of the jury of a notice to defendant’s attorney by the district attorney to produce the decoy letters. Two of these letters purported to be written by Miss Gardner to the defendant, and one letter in reply signed by defendant. The letters purporting to be written by Miss Gardner ordered copies of the obscene book, “Inner Studies,” and a magazine called “Mazdaznan,” and the third one, signed by defendant, stated that the book had been sent by express, and that the magazine would be mailed every…
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