Pelz v. United States

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The indictment charged appellants in nine substantive counts of violation of the mail fraud statutes (section 215 U. S. Criminal Code, 18 USCA § 338), and in the tenth count with conspiracy to violate the statute (section 37 U. S. Criminal Code, 18 USCA § 88). They were acquitted on the substantive counts and convicted on the conspiracy count.

Pelz-Greenstein Company, Inc., was a New York corporation, and the áppellants were its officers. The name was changed to the Consolidated Factors’ Corporation. The crime of conspiracy, of which appellants have heen convicted, rests…