Harold Thomas Hermansen Alias Ford Hermansen v. United States

On motion for rehearing the appellant urges strongly that since, as he argues, the purchasers of automobiles from him under Texas law obtained good title thereto, prevailing over the claims of the Radcliff Finance Corporation, there was no fraud in his use of the mails to obtain duplicate Texas certificates of title for them. This argument presupposes that 18 U.S.C.A. § 1341 requires the consummation of a fraudulent scheme, while quite the opposite is true. The statute provides:

“Whoever, having devised or intended to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud * * * for the purpose of executing…