Davis v. United States

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

^ Louis Davis was indicted and tried for devising a scheme to- defraud and using the mails in executing the scheme in violation of section 215 of the Criminal Code (18 USCA § 338). On conviction and sentence he appealed, filing several assignments of error of which only one calls for discussion. The others are put aside as insubstantial or not fofinded on exceptions.

The defendant charges by the pertinent assigpment that the court erred in refusing his motion for a directed verdict of acquittal which was predicated on a claim that there is no proof he devised a scheme to…