Baker v. United States

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, who will be referred to as defendants, were indicted for violation of Section 215 of the Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C.A., Sec. 338, in an indictment containing seven counts. They were charged with having devised and with intending to devise a scheme to defraud and to obtain money and property by means of false pretenses and representations from sundry persons too numerous to mention. The scheme as alleged in the indictment may be generally described as a scheme to organize institutes and hospitals, and by means of telegrams, telephone, letters, pamphlets,…