Dysart v. United States, 272 U.S. 655 (1926)

Name: Dysart v. United States, 272 U.S. 655 (1926) - Syllabus
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Dysart v. United States

No. 102

Submitted November 23, 1926
Decided December 13, 1926
272 U.S. 655

CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

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. 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.

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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Dysart v. United States, 272 U.S. 655 (1926) in 272 U.S. 655 272 U.S. 656. Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GP7LDKMWZVVAY4Q.

MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Dysart v. United States, 272 U.S. 655 (1926), in 272 U.S. 655, page 272 U.S. 656. Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GP7LDKMWZVVAY4Q.

Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Dysart v. United States, 272 U.S. 655 (1926). cited in 1926, 272 U.S. 655, pp.272 U.S. 656. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GP7LDKMWZVVAY4Q.

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