United States v. William Cromer Knox and Charles R. Wilson, A/K/A C. R. Wilson

DYER, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from judgments entered upon a jury verdict of guilty under a ten count indictment. Nine counts of the indictment charged mail fraud,1 and the remaining count charged conspiracy to defraud.2 Each defendant was found guilty of each count in which he was named.3 We affirm.

Wilson is the owner of a royalty and the working interest of two wells located upon land which he owns. The oil from these wells was sold to Pan American Petroleum Company and was transported from the Wilson lease by a pipeline gathering system owned and operated by Service Pipeline…