United States v. Walter Rex Johnston, Iii, United States of America v. Harry Balk

DARR, Senior District Judge.

On May 5, 1959, the grand jury for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, returned two separate indictments which concerned the appellants, Harry Balk and Walter Rex Johnston, III. The first count of one indictment charged Johnston and others with a violation of the mail fraud statute 1 and in the second count charged a conspiracy to violate the mail fraud statute. 2 The first count of the other indictment charged appellants, Balk and Johnston, along with others, with violating the wire fraud statute. 3 A second count charged the same persons with a…