Legal Opinion
Marshall T. Gregory v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 12, 1958No. 16778PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge. ‘
This is an appeal from a conviction for mail fraud, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1341, after a jury verdict of guilty on Count One of a four-count indictment. The substantive questions are whether the transaction involved constitutes a mail fraud within the Act, and if so, whether, on a case almost wholly circumstantial, it was made out with requisite sufficiency. A few procedural questions are also presented.
The scheme to defraud and a use of the mails in its furtherance as set forth in paragraph 1 of Count One (repeated by reference in all other counts) and amplified by the…
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