Legal Opinion

United States v. Ellicott

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided September 14, 1964No. Nos. 9052, 9106, 9111, 9317PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Mail fraud was charged to J. Thomas Ellicott, Lewis L. Fleury, and Harvey C. Jones II in an indictment of them as principals and aiders for devising, and furthering by use of the mails, a scheme to defraud two savings and loan associations in Baltimore, Maryland. 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1342. These appeals against their conviction must prevail, because utilization of the mails to prosper the *869plan was not proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

Fleury, a lawyer, in 1961 discovered the Knight and Arpin tracts of land, located in Baltimore County, which although zoned as…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  2. Stoppelli v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1950
  3. James Broadus Crawley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1959

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. United States v. John Joseph FrankCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1974
  2. United States v. Burks, (m.d.) Charles J. Appeal of Charles J. Burks, M.DCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1989
  3. United States v. Priscilla R. Scott, United States of America v. Stephen Rodger WilsonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1984
  4. United States v. Henry Daniel Stull, Sr., and Henry Daniel Stull, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1975
  5. United States v. William Michael ThawCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1965

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