Brooks v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
.In Error to the District Court of the United States lor the Eastern District of Missouri.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
Defendant was indicted, tried and convicted under the provisions of section 5-180, Rev. St. [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3696], for having mailed a letter in the St. Louis post office in execution of a scheme or artifice to defraud, alleged to have been devised by him, and others, and which he intended to make effective by correspondence conducted by and through the postal establishment of the United States. The scheme as disclosed in the indictment is to the following effect: That the defendant, with others who were not put on trial with him, by means of advertisements…
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