Levinson v. United States

Levinson, defendant below, was indicted under section 215 of tbe Criminal Code (Comp. St.'§ 10385) on seven counte, each of which charged him with unlawfully using tbe United States mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud. Upon the trial five of the counts were dismissed, but upon counts 2 and 6 verdicts of guilty and judgments of conviction were rendered.

The two counts on which defendant was convicted áre identical in their averments as to the scheme devised, the correlative element of the offense in count 2 being, as charged, the mailing of a letter of August 1, 1923, to the Florence…