United States v. Hartenfeld

KERNER, Circuit Judge.

The indictment^ consisting of nineteen counts charged in the first eighteen a scheme to defraud and the use of the United States mails in the furtherance of the same in violation of Section 215 of the Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C.A. § 338, and in the nineteenth count charged that the appellant and Ethel Pitt Donnell, Robert D. Beckett and John K. Knapp unlawfully conspired to use the United States mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud, 18 U.S.C.A. § 88. The case was tried to a jury. Co-defendants Donnell and Beckett pleaded guilty. The jury returned a verdict of not…