Rinker v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Co-urt of the United States for the District of Kansas.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the District Court upon a charge of having deposited in the United States post office at Wakeeney, Kan., a certain obscene, lewd, and lascivious letter, -in violation of section 3893 of the Revised Statutes, as amended September 26, 1888 (25 Stat. 496, c. 1039, § 2 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2658]), and now seeks a reversal of the judgment because of alleged errors in the proceedings.
The first matter to be considered is the sufficiency of the indictment, which was challenged by a demurrer and by a motion in arrest of…
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