Milton Mende v. United States

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

This is a mail fraud case. The first point on appeal concerns, because of statutes of limitations, the effect of bringing in a new indictment which dropped the word “either” and changed one “or” to “and,” plus the substitution of the word “allegations” for the word “violations.”

Mende was one of the principals in an enterprise of - soliciting mail orders for towels and perfume by means of radio advertising. Financially the business was a flop. Radio stations generally didn’t get paid for their broadcast time. Essentially the basis of three successive indictments was…