Pace v. United States

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction and sentence on all of thirty-one counts of an indictment charging appellant and two others with violations of various provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, title 1, § 17, 48 Stat. 84, 15 U.S.C.A. § 77q, in the sale of the stock of the Atlas Holding Company, a Nevada corporation having no assets.

Tested in the language of the statute, the various counts sufficiently charge the offenses denounced, and the transactions were described with sufficient particularity to enable appellant to prepare his defense. Therefore it was not error to…