Wells v. United States

HUNT, Circuit Judge.

Writ of error to review conviction of Wells for violation of section 215 of the Penal Code (Comp. St. § 10385).

The substance of the charge was that about March 3, 1922, Wells and others, indicted and convicted, were to form a partnership for the purpose of acquiring and holding certain acreage and two town lots; that they were to organize a trust called the Cooperative Oil Syndicate of Santa Fé Springs; that the trust agreement was to provide that each partner should own a one-sixth interest in the land, title to be in two persons (also defendants) as trustees; that the…