Beckett v. United States

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The appellants were severally tried and convicted, each upon a series of indictments charging the use of the mails in a scheme to defraud in violation of section 338, title 18 U.S.C.A., and another series charging conspiracies to violate the same statute. There were ten indictments against Beckett. He had two trials, one upon an indictment charging a substantive offense consolidated with a conspiracy indictment growing out of the same circumstances, and the other upon four indictments charging substantive offenses and four indictments charging conspiracies to commit…