John Darwin Ahrens, Jr. v. United States

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of sending in interstate commerce four telegrams in connection with a scheme he was charged with having devised for obtaining money from Emory Lee Graves of Slidell, Louisiana, in violation of § 1343 of 18 U.S. C.A. 1 He was sentenced to imprisonment for five years under each of said counts, the sentences to run concurrently. He appeals, assigning as error that the trial court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal and in admitting the evidence of a witness, King, that appellant had practiced a like scheme upon him, said evidence…