Mr. Justice FIELD, after stating the case, delivered the opiuion of the court, as follows: There can be but one answer, in our judgment, to the questions certified to us. The statute of Congress by its terms applies only to persons who “ knowingly and wilfully” obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or of its carrier; •that is, to those who know that the…
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