Belden v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Iu Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Eastern District of Washington; Frank H. Rudkin, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Russell G. Belden and A. Eugene Wayland. Judgment of conviction, and defendants bring error.
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Iu Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Eastern District of Washington; Frank H. Rudkin, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Russell G. Belden and A. Eugene Wayland. Judgment of conviction, and defendants bring error. The indictment charges Russell 6. Belden and A. Eugene Wayland with having, prior to January 18, 1911, devised, and intending to devise, a scheme and artifice to defraud one John Neiderer, and divers other persons to the grand jury unknown, which said scheme and artifice to defraud was to be effected by the use…
1Opinion of the CourtWolverton, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [ 1 ] The first and twenty-first assignments of error challenge the suffi.■ciency of the indictment. The statute under which the indictment is drawn provides that:
“Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, * * * shall, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, place, or cause to be placed, any letter, postal card,” etc., “in any post office * s- * of the United States, * * * to bo sent or delivered by the post office establishment of the United States, * * _ * shall be fined,” etc.
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- Marrin v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1909
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