Cooper v. United States

CAYTON, Acting Judge.

Appeal from a conviction on a charge of attempting by false pretenses to obtain money from an insurance company on a fraudulent claim for stolen furs.1

*919The government’s evidence as developed by several witnesses was to the effect that appellant, Chester W. Cooper, with his wife’s knowledge arranged with a man named Douglas, who worked for them and who lived in the same building, to simulate a housebreaking of their apartment during their absence; that on an appointed evening Douglas did so, prying open a cabinet, emptying drawers, and breaking a back door window. It was…