Dysart v. United States - 272 U.S. 655 (1926)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Dysart v. United States, 272 U.S. 655 (1926)
Dysart v. United States
No. 102
Submitted November 23, 1926
Decided December 13, 1926
272 U.S. 655
Syllabus
Letters advertising a home for the care and protection of pregnant unmarried women and their infants are not "obscene, lewd or lascivious" within § 211, Crim.Code, even when mailed, without excuse, to refined women. Swearingen v. United States, 161 U. S. 446. P. 272 U. S. 656.
4 F.2d 765 reversed.
Certiorari (268 U.S. 687) to a judgment of the circuit court of appeals affirming a conviction for mailing an obscene, lewd, and lascivious card and letter.
