United States v. Leathers

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The defendants Leathers and Thomas were convicted of devising a scheme to defraud a seventy-two year old woman, Johanna A. Bayer, and her nephew, Wilhelm Bayer, through false representations and of executing the scheme through the use of the United States mails. They were also convicted of conspiring to commit the substantive offenses. The defendants Leathers and Thomas have appealed from the judgment of conviction, which, in our opinion, should be affirmed.

Two other defendants, Samuel J. Mustain and David Stewart, were joined with the appellants. Mustain…