[50] Now, with amendments, sections 211, 212 and 245 of the United States Criminal Code.
[51] Vide Anthony Comstock, Fighter, pp. 81, 85, 94.
[52] Now sections 1141, 1142 and 1143 of the Penal Laws of New York.
[53] U. S. vs. Casper, reported in the Twentieth Century, Feb. 11, 1892.
[54] The trial court dodged the issue by directing the jury to find the prisoner not guilty on the ground of insanity. The necessary implication, of course, was that the publication complained of was actually obscene. In 1895, one Wise, of Clay Center, Kansas, sent a quotation from the Bible through the mails, and was found guilty of mailing obscene matter. See The Free Press Anthology, compiled by Theodore Schroeder; New York, Truth Seeker Pub. Co., 1909, p. 258.
[55] U. S. vs. Bennett, 16 Blatchford, 368-9 (1877).
[56] Idem, 362; People vs. Muller, 96 N. Y., 411; U. S. vs. Clark, 38 Fed. Rep. 734.
[57] U. S. vs. Moore, 129 Fed., 160-1 (1904).
[58] U. S. vs. Heywood, judge's charge, Boston, 1877. Quoted in U. S. vs. Bennett, 16 Blatchford.
[59] U. S. vs. Slenker, 32 Fed. Rep., 693; People vs. Muller, 96 N. Y. 408-414; Anti-Vice Motion Picture Co. vs. Bell, reported in the New York Law Journal, Sept. 22, 1916; Sociological Research Film Corporation vs. the City of New York, 83 Misc. 815; Steele vs. Bannon, 7 L. R. C. L. Series, 267; U. S. vs. Means, 42 Fed. Rep. 605, etc.