People v. Eddy

Defendant was convicted of selL ing securities which had not been accepted for filing for sale by the Michigan corporation and securities commission, in violation of section 7 of the blue-sky law (CL 1948, § 451.101 et seq. [Stat Ann § 19.741 et seq.}). Proofs established that he had made a large number of such sales in the course of repeated and successive transactions of a like character to several persons.

It is defendant’s contention that the identity of some of the persons to whom he made such sales and who appeared as witnesses for the people became known to the officers only through…