Legal Opinion
Kopald-Quinn & Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 16, 1939No. 8590PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
Appellants were indicted and tried with others upon an indictment in fifteen counts. Counts 1 to 7 charged them with “employing, by the use of the mails, a device, scheme or artifice to defraud” in violation of Sec. 17(a) of the Securities.Exchange Act of 1933, as amended;1 counts 8 to 14 inclusive charged them with using the mails to defraud in violation of the Mail Fraud statute,2 and the 15th count charged them with a conspiracy to violate both acts.3
The theory of the indictment was that defendants named in it were all parties to a general scheme to defraud, in the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Berger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- United States v. BergerCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1934
3Cited by22 opinions
- Perry O. Hooper, as Trustee in Bankruptcy of Consolidated American Industries, Inc. v. Mountain States Securities CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- United States v. CohenCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1944
- Speed v. Transamerica Corp.District Court, D. Delaware · 1951
- United States v. Hon. John M. Cashin, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1960
- United States v. MonjarCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1945
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