Felix Twidwell Adams v. United States

JOSEPH C. HUTCHESON, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted under a three-count indictment charging mail fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341. 1 The in dictment alleged that Adams willfully and knowingly devised, and intended to devise, a scheme and artifice to defraud the Gulf Oil Company, one William Magie, and various Gulf distributors, who could be induced to extend credit upon Magie’s Gulf credit card, and to obtain money and property from them by means of false and fraudulent pretenses and representations, known to Adams to be false, and that he caused various sales slips to be…