United States v. Bunker

(after stating the facts as above). The point is made, first, that there is no allegation of the mailing of -any “letter,” as required by said section 215, in that the indictment alleges merely the placing in the post office of an “envelope”; that the allegation as to the “purpose” for which the mails were made use of refers to the envelope alone, and not to the letter set out. This, however, is carrying refinement in criticism to an indefensible extreme. It is apparent that there was a charge of the mailing of an envelope, which said envelope contained the letter set out in the indictment. A…