Pearlman v. State

The defendants, William Pearlman, William Blank, Leonard Cohen, Blair Brown and Jerome Glass, were convicted by the Criminal Court of Baltimore sitting without a jury of conspiracy to cheat and defraud, and have appealed.

Trading and doing business under various names, the defendants, who were engaged in the business of selling home improvements and in the financing thereof, were indicted (with others) in a two-count indictment for conspiring to cheat and defraud their customers, financial institutions which financed home improvement sales, and stockholders of the corporations the defendants…