Blount v. Huff

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court discharging a rule to show cause and dismissing a petition for habeas corpus.

Petitioner was indicted October 27, 1940, for violation of the Act of Congress (as italicized below) which subjects to criminal penalties one who knowingly and willfully deposits in the mail any threat to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon the President, “or who knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President."1

Petitioner pleaded not guilty and moved for a bill of particulars, which was furnished. Subsequently petitioner,…