Finnegan v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Michigan; Clarence W. Sessions, Judge. P. H. Finnegan was convicted of using the mails to defraud, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SATER, District Judge.
Finnegan, the defendant below, was indicted, convicted and sentenced under section 215 of the Penal Code, for using the mails to defraud, tie prosecutes error to obtain a reversal of the judgment against him.
The first paragraph of the first count, the only one on which he was convicted, charges that, on or about January 31, 1911, at Calumet, Midi., he devised the following scheme to defraud “divers other persons” : He and his agents personally and through the mails and by printed circulars and other advertising matter would falsely and fraudulently represent to “such…
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