Legal Opinion
Bours v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 5, 1915No. 2064PublishedCited by 11 opinions
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; Ferdinand A. Geiger, Judge. T. Robinson Bours was convicted of an offense, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
MACK, Circuit Judge.
The defendant was- convicted under an indictment based on section 211 of the Penal Code, copied in the margin,1 and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. The indictment, after alleging a newspaper advertisement by defendant reading: “Women’s Diseases a Specialty. Consult Dr. T. Robinson Bours”— and giving his address and telephone number, charged the receipt by him on September 16, 1912, of the following letter:
“Sparta, Wis., Sept. 16, 1912.
“Dr. T. Robinson Bours, 403-404 Merrill Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis. — My Dear Doctor: I am at a loss as to begin to tell you my…
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