Legal Opinion
United States v. James Finis Toney, Jr., and John H. Stewart, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 18, 1979No. 77-5841PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:
Appellants Toney and Stewart were charged with engaging in a scheme to defraud in connection with the sale of distributorships for a dehydrated food product. They were convicted by a jury of two counts of using the U.S. mails for the purpose of executing a scheme to defraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341. 1 Toney and Stewart raise four contentions of error. First, the two uses of the mails charged in the indictment, two letters sent to the appellants by the attorney for one of the victims of the distributorship scheme, could not have been uses in furtherance of the…
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