Post v. United States

SHEFBY, Circuit Judge.

Four indictments were found against the plaintiff in error, who will hereafter be called the defendant, charging her with a violation of section 5480 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of March 2, 1889, c. 393, § 1, 25 Stat. 873 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3697]. The material parts of the statute are as follows:

“If any person, having devised or intended to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud * * * to be effected by either opening or intending to open correspondence or communication with any person, whether resident within or outside…