Cochran v. United States

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, who are designated herein as defendants, were, with certain others, indicted on the 9th of November, 1927, in the District Court of the United States, for the District of Minnesota, for violations of sections 215 and 37 of the Criminal Code (18 USCA §§ 338 and 88), in an indictment containing twenty-three counts. They were charged with having devised a scheme to obtain money and property by false pretenses in connection with the sale of stoeks, bonds, and notes of the Yolkszeitung Printing & Publishing Company, the Hardstone Brick Company of Duluth, Inc.,…