Marrin v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. For opinion of court below on rule for a new trial, see 159 Fed. 767. Before DAEEAS and GRAY, Circuit Judges, and ARCHBAED, District Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBALD, District Judge.
The defendant was convicted of a conspiracy to defraud by the use of the mails. He was engaged, with others, in conducting what was known as the “Storey Cotton Exchange,” with which a large number of persons in different parts of the country were induced by correspondence to intrust their money for the purpose of speculating in cotton, upon highly inflated expectations, skillfully aroused, of altogether impossible profits; the United States mails being used to advertise and carry on the business. The fraudulent character of the enterprise and the defendant’s…
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