United States v. Wynn
District Court, E.D. Missouri
The defendant in this case having been tried and found guilty in the district court, under an information charging him with having stolen a letter from the mail, moved in arrest of judgment on the ground that the crime charged was infamous, and could only be prosecuted by indictment. The motion having been overruled, (see 9 Fed. Rep. 886,) the case was brought before this court by a writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
McCrary, C. J.,
(orally.) The case of Louis D. Wynn is before me on an error from the district court.† I do not propose to express any final opinion upon the important question that is involved in this case at this time. It is the question as to what is meant by the phrase “infamous crimes” in the constitution of the United States. Various views have been expressed by different courts upon it. It is a question of very grave importance — one which ought to be determined finally by the supreme court of the United States, and I trust soon will be. It is probable, I think, that, upon a full…
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