HARTFORD v. UNITED STATES

No. 20010.

362 F.2d 63 (1966)

Robert Henry HARTFORD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 20, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. S. Hochman, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Wm. P. Copple, U. S. Atty., Morton Sitver, Lawrence Turoff, Asst. U. S. Attys., Phoenix, Ariz., for appellant.

Before HAMLEY, KOELSCH and ELY, Circuit Judges.


HAMLEY, Circuit Judge:

Robert Henry Hartford appeals from a judgment, entered on a jury verdict, convicting him of transmitting obscene matter in the United States mails, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1461 (1964). The obscene matter was a letter postmarked Glendale, Arizona, which Hartford, on September 27, 1963, wrote to a registered nurse with whom he had become acquainted while he was a mental patient at Arizona State Hospital.

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