United States v. Cook

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

In November, 1925, Frederick A. Cook was convicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas under an indictment charging him with using the United States mails in executing a scheme to defraud, and was sentenced to serve in the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., a total of 14 years and 9 months, and to pay a fine of $1,000 on each of the 12 counts on which he was convicted. That judgment of conviction was affirmed by this court in February, 1925. Pursuant to an application made by Cook in February, 1927, while he was confined…