Webb v. United States

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Ross N. Webb, herein referred to as the defendant, was indicted in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas on four counts which charged the use of the United States mails to defraud, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C.A., § 338, now Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 1341. The defendant was convicted and sentenced upon all four counts. This appeal is from the judgment and sentence on that conviction.

The indictment charged that the defendant, with two others, as officers in a business known as the Weco Stove and Heater Company, devised and intended to…