United States v. Pardue

HUTCHESON, District Judge.

The above-named defendants are charged with the devising of a scheme or artifice to defraud, and the subsequent use of the mails in consummation thereof, in violation of section 215 of the Penal Code (Comp. St. § 10385), and also with a conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, in violation of section 37 of the Penal Code (Comp. St. § 10201). The indictment contains 16 counts, and charges the defendants, including J. A. Chaffe, with the offenses above set out, growing out of the activities of the defendants as officers and agents of the Old Dominion…