Colburn v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri; David P. Dyer, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against George L. Col-burn and M. G. Winegar. From a judgment of conviction, defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs in error were convicted in the court below of devising a scheme to defraud and making use of the postal establishment of the United States in its execution. There were two indictments, containing in the aggregate 22 counts. One of them was based on section 5480 of the Revised S’tatutes, and the other on section 215 of the Penal Code (Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, 35 Stat. 1130 [Comp. St. 1913, § 10,385]), and these were consolidated for the purposes of a trial.
The scheme laid in each count of the indictments was that the defendants should secure in their own names…
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