Glass v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington; Jeremiah Neterer, Judge. R. E. Glass and another were convicted of crime, and R. E. Glass brings error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington; Jeremiah Neterer, Judge. R. E. Glass and another were convicted of crime, and R. E. Glass brings error. The plaintiff in error and one W. A. Rldgway were jointly indicted in an indictment containing ten counts, the first, second, third, fourth, and seventh of which are as follows: “That heretofore, to wit, on or about the 13th day of April, 1909, one W. A. Ridgway and one R. E. Glass, at the city of Seattle, county of King, state of Washington, within the Western District of…
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Section 3894 of the Revised Statutes reads as follows:
“No letter or circular concerning (illegal) lotteries, so-called gift concerts, or other similar enterprises, offering prizes, or concerning schemes devised and intended to deceive and defraud the public for the purpose of obtaining money under false pretenses, shall he carried in the mail. Any person who shall knowingly deposit or send anything to he conveyed by mail in violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars nor less than one hundred dollars, with…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Crain v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Blitz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
3Cited by8 opinions
- Boone v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1919
- State v. AlvordIdaho Supreme Court · 1928
- Wheeler v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1935
- Anderson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1920
- Phillips v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1920
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