United States v. Flemming

Blodgett, J.,

(charging jury.) The indictment in this case is based upon section 5480 of the Revised Statutes, which I will now read:

“If any person having devised, or intending to devise, any scheme or artifice to defraud, to be effected by either opening, or intending to open, correspondence or communication with any other person, whether resident within or outside of the United States, by means of the post-office establishment of the United States, or by inciting such other person to open communication with the person so devising or intending, shall, in and for executing such scheme or…