Hagner v. United States

Petitioners were indicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia under § 215 of the Criminal Code, U. S. C-, Title 18, § 338, which provides:

“Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, . . . shall, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, place or cause to be placed, any letter, ... in any post-office, ... to be sent or delivered by the post-office establishment of the United States, ... or shall knowingly cause to he delivered hy mail according to the direction thereon, . . . any such letter, . . . shall be…