United States v. K. C. Edwards, A/K/A Kermit Edwards

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

Defendants appeal from their conviction and sentence on an indictment charging them with a conspiracy to defraud by use of the mails in violation of Title 18, U.S.C.A., Section 371, and six counts of mail fraud in violation of Title 18, U.S.C.A., Section 1341.1 We affirm.

*878The several members of the conspiratorial cast involved in the instant case require a brief identification. Defendant Edwards is an ex-attorney, disbarred from the practice of law on May 2, 1969,2 for violating an Alabama rule of ethics forbidding attorney involvement in securing Alabama divorces for…