United States v. Irving Klaw and Jack Kramer

MOORE, Circuit Judge:

Irving Klaw and Jack Kramer were indicted on one count for conspiring to violate 18 U.S.C.A. § 1461 by knowingly using the mails for the carriage of “articles, matters, and things, which were non-mailable in that they were obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy and vile.” They were also charged with having knowingly used the mails to distribute “circulars, advertisements and notices which were non-mailable in that they gave information directly and indirectly, where, how, from whom and by what means certain obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy and vile matters…