Sparks v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee; John E. McCaH, Judge. Samuel U. Sparks and others were convicted of offenses, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
The Chickasaw Banking & Trust Company was a banking corporation organized in 1905 under the laws of Tennessee and doing business at Memphis. On the 7th day of January, 1913, it closed its doors by reason of insolvency. Following the bank’s failure, plaintiffs in error and one Biles were indicted upon eight counts, seven of which charged the use of the mails to promote a scheme to defraud in violation of section 215 of the Penal Code of the United States. The remaining count charged a conspiracy, within section 37 of the Code (Comp. St. 1916, § 10201), to violate section…
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