Murray v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Charleston; Benjamin E. Keller, Judge. Charles P. Murray was convicted of a violation of Criminal Code, § 217, for having deposited and caused to be deposited in the Post Office for mailing a poison with the design and intent to injure and kill another, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCHARD, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error, defendant below, was indicted, tried, and convicted in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia for an alleged violation of section 217 of the Criminal Code of the United States. That portion of the indictment which is material charges the defendant with having—
“ * * * deposited and caused to be deposited, in a post office of the United States, to wit, the post office of the United States at Charleston, in the state of West Virginia, * * * for mailing and delivering a certain poison, to wit. strychnine,…
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