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UNITED STATES v. OTIS

No. 310.

18 F.2d 689 (1927)

UNITED STATES ex rel. ESTABROOK v. OTIS, District Judge.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

April 12, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce S. Elliott, of St. Louis, Mo., for petitioner.

Roscoe C. Patterson, U. S. Atty., and William L. Vandeventer, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Kansas City, Mo., for respondent.

Before SANBORN, STONE, and KENYON, Circuit Judges.

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner in this case, who is serving a term of 15 years in the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., pursuant to his conviction of the offense of causing poison to be delivered by the mails of the United States to Judge E. E. Porterfield with intent to injure and kill him, in violation of section 217 of the Penal Code of the United States (Comp. St. § 10387), presented to this court his petition for its writ of mandamus to require...

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