Bartell v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT' OF SOUTH DAKOTA. . The facts, which involve the construction of § 3893, Rev. Stat., and the validity of an indictment and conviction thereunder for depositing obscene matter in a post-office of the United States, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT' OF SOUTH DAKOTA. . The facts, which involve the construction of § 3893, Rev. Stat., and the validity of an indictment and conviction thereunder for depositing obscene matter in a post-office of the United States, are stated in the opinion. Under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments the indictment must inform the accused of the charge with the definiteness and certainty recognized by law at the time this provision was adopted into the Constitution, and must be sufficient to protect, by the record, the defendant from a second jeopardy…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
The plaintiff in error was indicted under § 3893 of the Revised Statutes, which declares certain matter unmail-■ able, for depositing a letter alleged to be obscene in a post-office of the United States. Upon trial he was convicted, and was sentenced to a term in the penitentiary. The case is brought here to review alleged errors in failing to .sustain objections made to the indictment in the court below.
The indictment charged that Bartel! did on the twenty-fourth of November, 1911, at Sioux Falls, in the County of Minnehaha, State of South Dakota, unlawfully, wil-fully, knowingly and…
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