United States v. Louis Rex Curtis

CHRISTENSEN, Senior District Judge.

Charged in four counts of an indictment, and convicted on each by jury trial, for violating the Mail Fraud Statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1341, 1 appellant Louis Rex Curtis questions on this appeal the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict and the sufficiency of the indictment to survive his motion to dismiss. 2

At the close of the government’s case a motion for judgment of acquittal for claimed insufficiency of the evidence was submitted to, and ruled upon by, the court adversely to appellant. He thereafter testified in his own behalf and introduced other…