United States v. Keller

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

Defendant convicted of violating 18 U. S.C.A. § 1463,1 i. e., that he “did knowingly deposit for mailing a postal card -X- * * upon which language of an indecent character was written”, moves for judgment of acquittal, F.R.Crim.P. Rule 29(a), and in arrest of judgment, Id. Rule 34,18 U.S.C.A.

Defendant, a married man, mailed from Pennsylvania to an unmarried fe*941male in Kentucky nineteen postal cards purportedly describing their previous intimate sexual relationship and broken friendship. Defendant was indicted in nineteen counts, one as to each postal card containing a…