United States v. Wroblenski
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
On motion to quash indictment under section 3893, as amended by 25 Stat. 496 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2658], for mailing a letter “of an indecent character,” alleged to be “obscene, lewd, and lascivious.”
1Opinion of the Court
SEAMAN, District Judge.
The letter in question is directed to the mother of the defendant, refers to epithets applied by the former to the latter, and, in effect, charges the mother with adulterous intercourse with a son-in-law. It is atrocious in spirit, and indecent in the plain implications of the language. It is grossly defamatory, but the statute does not intend protection against libels of the person addressed. “The offense aimed at,” as held in- Swearingen v. U. S., 161 U. S. 446, 450, 16 Sup. Ct. 562, 40 L. Ed. 765, “was the use of the mails to circulate or deliver matter to corrupt…
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- Spalding v. VilasSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Dunlop v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- United States v. ChaseSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Swearingen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Andrews v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
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