Cohen v. United States

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

The four appellants were tried and convicted on five counts of an indictment; one, under section 37 of the Criminal Code (18 USCA § 88), charging conspiracy to violate section 215 of the Criminal Code (18 USCA, § 338) and the other charging substantive offenses under the latter section. The assignments when compressed specify two errors; the first that the court erred in refusing to direct a verdict of acquittal because the government had failed to prove the conspiracy alleged in the first count and the schemes to defraud charged in the remaining counts. As no new…