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BLOUNT v. HUFF

No. 8705.

144 F.2d 21 (1944)

BLOUNT v. HUFF, General Superintendent, D. C. Penal Institutions.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided July 24, 1944.

Writ of Certiorari Denied December 11, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W. Hobart Little, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Messrs. Edward M. Curran, United States Attorney, and John C. Conliff, Jr., and Charles B. Murray, Assistant United States Attorneys, all of Washington, D. C., submitted on the brief, for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.

Writ of Certiorari Denied December 11, 1944. See 65 S.Ct. 276.

GRONER, C. J.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court discharging a rule to show cause and dismissing a petition for habeas corpus.

Petitioner was indicted October 27, 1940, for violation of the Act of Congress (as italicized below) which subjects to criminal penalties one who knowingly and willfully deposits in the mail any threat to take the life of or to inflict bodily...

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