United States v. Jones
District Court, N.D. New York
Criminal prosecution by the United States against Wylie B. Jones. On application by the defendant Wylie B. Jones for an order directing the United States attorney for the Northern district of New York to return to him certain letters and papers and copies of letters and pamphlets or circulars belonging to him, and which he claims were seized unlawfully and in violation of his constitutional rights under and by virtue of a search warrant issued by one of the United States…
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Criminal prosecution by the United States against Wylie B. Jones. On application by the defendant Wylie B. Jones for an order directing the United States attorney for the Northern district of New York to return to him certain letters and papers and copies of letters and pamphlets or circulars belonging to him, and which he claims were seized unlawfully and in violation of his constitutional rights under and by virtue of a search warrant issued by one of the United States commissioners in said district.
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
One of the assistant United States attorneys for the Northern district of New York having received through inspectors of the Post Office Department information tending to show that the defendant, Wylie B. Jones, had devised a scheme or artifice to defraud and for obtaining money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises, and tliat said Jones had been and then was engaged in the execution of such scheme, and that he had used and was using the post office at Binghamton, N. Y., for the execution of such scheme or artifice by…
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- Todd v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
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