Legal Opinion
Wilkes v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 8, 1935No. 7466PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MATHEWS, Circuit Judge.
The indictment in this case was in fifteen counts, fourteen of which charged Alfred G. Wilkes, E. Byron Siens, John Mc-Keon, Robert McKeon, Maurice C. Myers, William J. Cavanaugh, Fred Shingle, Horace J. Brown, and ten other defendants with using the mails in execution of a scheme to defraud (Criminal Code, § 215, 18 U.S.C.A. § 338). The fifteenth count charged them with conspiring to commit the offenses described in the other fourteen counts (Criminal Code, § 37, 18 U.S.C.A. § 88). Wilkes, Siens, and Cavanaugh were convicted and sentenced on counts 2, 6, and 15, Myers…
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