United States v. George L. Kelly, Thomas Francis Kelly, Sr., Thomas Francis Kelly, Jr. And Louis Efkeman

WEICK, Chief Judge.

Appellants were convicted by a jury in the District Court on four counts of a 12-count indictment charging them with knowingly sending in interstate commerce paraphernalia, paper and writing used and to be used and adapted, devised and designed for use in bookmaking in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 1953 and Title 18 U.S.C. § 2. They were sentenced to pay fines and costs.

Section 1953 of Title 18 was a new criminal statute enacted by Congress in 1961. It was sponsored by the Attorney General, along with six other bills, in his program to curb organized crime and…