United States v. Knutson

GRANT, District Judge.

Defendant was indicted on July 17, 1959 on twenty nine Counts for violation of certain provisions of the United States Postal Laws. Counts I to XVI inclusive and Count XXIX charge the defendant with having “devised and intended to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud and for obtaining money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises to various and sundry persons who were desirous of purchasing books and other publications from the defendant * * * in violation of Section 1341, Title 18 of the United States Code Annotated.”…