United States v. Smith

The Revised Statutes (section 5480, as amended by 25 St. 873) provides that — ■

“If any person, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, to be effected by either opening or intending to open correspondence or communication with any person by means of the post-office establishment of the United States, or by inciting such oilier person to open communication with the person so devising or intending, shall, in executing or attempting to execute such scheme, deposit in the post-oflice for transmission by mail any letter, packet, writing, circular, pamphlet, or…