Lewis v. United States

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error, herein called defendants, Lewis, Kauffman, and Schwartz, were, under section 215 of the Criminal Code, convicted of using the mails in a scheme to defraud. The indictment charges nine persons; two of these were acquitted by order of court, two by the jury, one was never apprehended, and the ninth was apparently nonexistent. The three defendants convicted were, under the style of S. S. Lewis & Co., B. F. Kauffman & Co., and H. H. Superior & Co., dealing in oil, mining, and other speculative stocks, with offices in Boston. Some or all of the…