Levine v. United States

Ten persons were found guilty by a jury on each count of a 10-count indictment. The count predicated on 18 U. S. C. § 371 (1964 ed.) charged all defendants with conspiring to violate § 17 of the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U. S. C. § 77q (a) (1964 ed.), and the Mail Fraud Act, 18 U. S. C. § 1341 (1964 ed.); each of the remaining nine counts charged all defendants with substantive offenses of violating these latter statutes. The Court of Appeals affirmed all the conspiracy convictions; and, with some exception for petitioner Roberts and two other defendants, that court also affirmed the…