Cullen v. United States

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error were convicted under an indictment which charged them with using the mails in a scheme to defraud, in violation of section 215 of the Penal Code (Comp. St. § 10385). It is contended that it was error to deny their motions for instructed verdicts of acquittal.

So far as the defendants Cullen and Dennison are concerned, the evidence was amply sufficient to justify the submission of the ease to the jury. They purchased at $3.25 per acre 1,120 acres of land, which they had never seen, and they organized a corporation, known as Great Angelus Oil & Land…