Gammon v. United States

WALTER H. SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, Dallas Gammon, was indicted, tried and convicted for using the mails in violation of section 10385, U. S. Compiled Statutes, to- defraud eight persons, one of whom only was named in each count of the indictment, by sending to each of them through the mails a written or printed communication in the course of executing a scheme or plan to defraud them, which -he had previously devised.

The alleged scheme was by false, written or printed representations that his copartnership, Gammon & Son, had available described, valuable, Polled Hereford cattle,…