United States v. Higgins

EVANS, District Judge.

The testimony having all been heard, the defendants have moved the court to charge the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. Thg question thus raised is interesting and important, and, as-we shall see, has two sides to it. The indictment charges that the defendants—

“unlawfully did knowingly deposit and cause to be deposited in the post office of 'the United States at Louisville, Kentucky, for mailing and delivery, a eertain copy of a newspaper publication then and there entitled ‘Kentucky Irish-American,’ bearing the date of Saturday, April 15, 1911, which said…