Glover v. United States

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, J. G. Glover, was convicted and sentenced on eighteen counts of an indictment charging the use of the mails to defraud. The principal question for decision involves the sufficiency of the evidence to make out a case for the jury.

During the years 1937 to 1940, as supervisor of state forces for the highway board of Georgia, appellant’s duties were to supervise and manage the state convicts who were used to build and repair the highways of Georgia, and to locate, construct, maintain, and manage the prison camps erected near various road projects throughout…