United States v. Hirsch

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The appellants were indicted in twenty counts charging them, and others, with using the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud (U. S. C. title 18, § 338 [18 USCA § 338]), and in one count of conspiracy to violate the mail fraud statute (U. S. C. title 18, § 88 [18 USCA § 88]). The proof established the scheme or artifice by which they defrauded the various victims to-be the incorporation and use of the Sheldon Hosiery Company, Inc., and the Mills Research Corporation, through which they popularized and sold hosiery for women throughout the United States. It was…