UNITED STATES v. DARNELL

No. 152, Docket 27692.

316 F.2d 813 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John DARNELL, III, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided April 26, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Lambert, Greenwich, Conn., for defendant-appellant.

Arnold Markle, Asst. U. S. Atty., D. Conn., New Haven, Conn. (Robert C. Zampano, U. S. Atty., New Haven, Conn., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CLARK, MOORE and KAUFMAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant mailed to a married woman of his acquaintance a letter wherein he discussed more frankly than fastidiously his and her personal relations with her husband, including homosexual practices described baldly in four- and three-letter words. Her complaint to the postal authorities, on receipt of the letter, set the inevitable wheels of justice in motion, to result in his conviction of violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1461, a six months' prison term suspended...

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