Stubbs v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of California. Ira H. Stubbs was convicted under count 1 of an indictment charging conspiracy to devise a scheme to defraud by using the mails of the United States (sections 37 and 215 of the Criminal Code of the United States [Comp. St. 1916, _§■§ 10201, 10385]), and under count 2, which charged violation of section 215, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
HUNT, Circuit Judge.
The important questions presented are: (1) Was a conspiracy proved? or (2) was it established that there was a scheme to defraud, in the execution of which the mails were used? The first count of the indictment charges that Stubbs, Jones, Margaret Turner, and E. Brown, about August 1, 1915, at Los Angeles, Cal., conspired to use the mails in a scheme and artifice to defraud such persons as would enter into negotiations with the defendants for the purchase, sale, or exchange of real estate pursuant to an advertisement put in the Los Angeles Examiner, a newspaper at Los…
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