Friscia v. United States

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, Augustine Friscia, Peter Friscia, Mario Pearla, and Lewis Puglisi, were convicted, upon five counts of an indictment drawn under 18 USCA § 338, of using the mails for the purpose of executing a scheme to defraud.

The first count of the indictment — after setting out that on October 2,1931, an apartment house described by lot and block numbers, the title to which was in Augustine Friscia, was destroyed by fire, and that before the fire a policy in the sum of $3,000, insuring the apartment house against loss by fire, was issued “by Associated Underwriters, Inc.,…