Legal Opinion
Clark v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 2, 1914No. 4051PublishedCited by 11 opinions
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of North Dakota; Charles A. Willard, Judge. Sam H. Clark and C. H. Crockard were convicted of knowingly depositing with an express company an obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy book, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
CAREAND, Circuit Judge.
Clark and Crockard were indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced in the District Court for the District of North Dakota on counts 2 and 25 of an indictment which charged them with violating section 245 of the Penal Code. That section, so far as material, was as follows :
“Whoever shall bring or cause to be brought into the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, from any foreign country, or shall therein knowingly deposit or cause to be deposited with any express company or other common carrier, for carriage from one state * * * to any other…
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