Magon v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of California'; Oscar A. Trip-pet, Judge. Enrique Flores Magon and Ricardo Flores Magon were convicted of violating Criminal Code, § 211, as amended in 1911, by depositing in the post office newspapers of an indecent character, as tending to incite murder and assassination, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
DOOEING, District Judge.
[1,2] The defendants were convicted of the offense of depositing in the post office at Eos Angeles, Cal., to be transmitted to divers persons in the Ehiited States and in Mexico, a certain newspaper, which was a publication of an indecent character, as tending to incite murder and assassination. The indictment is based upon section 211 of the Criminal Code, as amended in 1911; the portions of the section material here being the following:
“Every obscene, lewd, or lascivious, and every filthy, book, pamphlet, picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other publication…
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