United States v. Burnell

WOOLSON, District Judge.

The defendant was indicted under Act Sept. 26, 1888 (25 Stat. 496; 1 Supp. Bev. St. 621), charged with having knowingly caused to he deposited in the United States post office at Marshalltown, Iowa, for mailing and delivering through the United States post-office establishment, “a certain newspaper, pamphlet, and publication, called the ‘Interstate Tracer’ [which is particularly described], upon the outside cover and wrapper of which language of a scurrilous and defamatory character was printed,” etc. The cause was tried to a jury on a plea of not guilty, and verdict…