Shepard v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Utah.
1Opinion of the Court
PHILIPS, District Judge.
The plaintiff in error (for convenience hereinafter designated the defendant) was indicted under the act of Congress approved September 26, 1888, c. 1089, § 2, 25 Stat. 496 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2658), for depositing in the mails letters, pamphlets, etc., giving information where, how, of whom, and by what means obscene, lewd, and lascivious books, adapted for indecent and immoral use might be obtained. He was convicted on two counts, and sentenced to imprisonment in the Utah Slate Prison, at hard labor, for 18 months. As by the judgment the sentences imposed were…
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