Lau Fook Kau v. United States

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was convicted of sending an obscene letter through the United States mails. The portion of the letter charged to be obscene is set forth in English in the indictment. It was directed to Post Office Box No. 2034, Honolulu, T. H. This post office box was used by the Liberty News, a newspaper of which Siu Chin Tai was president. The letter was anonymous, and contained no address for reply. The allegation in the indictment alleged that “said letter was obscene, lewd, and lascivious, in that said letter contained the following language: ‘I also ask whether the…