Krause v. United States

WADDILL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the district of Maryland,, at Baltimore, sentencing the appellant to-serve two years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, after trial and conviction on a. charge of sending obscene matter through, the mails.

The appellant, Victor Krause, was indicted on December 14, 1927, by the grand* jury for the district of Maryland, for a violation-of section 211 of the Criminal Code, as-amended (USCA tit. 18, § 334), in that he-mailed a letter to one Lincoln C. Baird, United States Naval Hospital,…