Parmelee v. United States

113 F.2d 729 (1940)

PARMELEE

v.

UNITED STATES.

No. 7332.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided May 14, 1940.

Rehearing Denied May 12, 1940.

Edmund D. Campbell, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

David A. Pine, U. S. Atty., and H. L. Underwood and John L. Laskey, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and VINSON, Associate Justices.

MILLER, Associate Justice.

The Collector of Customs at the Port of Washington, in the District of Columbia, seized six books, entitled "Nudism in Modern Life," which had been…