United States v. Becker

'L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

Becker and two others were indicted for sending obscene matter in interstate commerce,. and receiving it upon its return; a conspiracy count was added. An outline of the evidence is as follows: Becker went separately to. twq salesmen. of toys and “novelties,” Green and Davis, and asked them to sell.¡obscene stories and pictures,, which he should furnish them. They did so, were detected and indicted, and pleaded guilty; sentence upon-them was deferred in the hope that Becker and his accomplices, if any, might be decoyed into an interstate shipment of the same things.…