Legal Opinion
Lee v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 5, 1907No. 1,306PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
The indictment ⅛ this case was against “B. Brooks Lee, alias R. Brooke Sterling, whose true name is to the grand jurors aforesaid unknown.” It charged that person with willfully, knowingly, and feloniously depositing at a certain stated time in the post office at San Francisco, for mailing and delivery, a certain letter inclosed in a sealed envelope, upon which the postage was prepaid,addressed to Miss Jennie Meredith, Goshen, Tnd., R. R. 8, which letter was in these words and figures:
“Telephone South 9-16. Office Hours: 10 a. in. to 32 m„, 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p. m. R.…
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- Grimes v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1894
- State v. WinstrandSupreme Court of Iowa · 1873
3Cited by3 opinions
- United States v. SomersDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1908
- State v. AdairNew York Court of General Session of the Peace · 1922
- United States v. BreinholmDistrict Court, E.D. Washington · 1913