United States v. Davidson
District Court, N.D. New York
Minnie Davidson was indicted for sending a nonmailable letter through the mails, and for depositing in the post office an envelope the outside of which contained nonmailable matter.
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Minnie Davidson was indicted for sending a nonmailable letter through the mails, and for depositing in the post office an envelope the outside of which contained nonmailable matter. Demurrer to indictment filed June 19, 1917, and which contains two counts, one for a violation of section 211 of the Criminal Code by sending nonmailable matter in the form of an inclosed and directed letter through the United States mails, April 21,1917, and the other for a violation of section 212 of said Criminal Code by depositing in the post office of the United States, April 12, 1917, for mailing and…
1Opinion of the CourtRay, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). For the purposes of the demurrer and of determining the sufficiency of the indictment, assuming the facts stated to be true, on the 21st day of April, 1917, the defendant, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and within the Northern District of New York, deposited in the post office for mailing a letter inclosed in a post-paid envelope, duly addressed and directed to Mrs.-, and which letter or writing.reads as follows:
“You have’nt stopefi him from takeing the lady out have you? Just as soon as the bastard is old enough to understand I’ll write her a full account of…
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