United States v. Ball

WITMER, District Jud^e.

The defendants, Albert K. Ball, Mark Ball, and Eouis Ball, were indicted, charged with a violation of section *751215 of the Penal Code (Comp. St. § 10385). The indictment contained one count alleging that the defendants “did unlawfully, willfully, maliciously, and feloniously devise a scheme or artifice to defraud, and to use the mail service of the United States government to carry said scheme into effect,” and that in pursuance to said fraudulent scheme or artifice the said defendants did “make out and send, and cause to be sent, postage paid, through the United…