Blanton v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri; Arba S. Van Valkenburgh, Judge. W. E. Blanton and W. W. Chinn were convicted of using the mails in aid of a scheme to defraud, and they separately bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
W. E. Blanton, W. W. Chinn, Thomas A. Wakefield, and T. A. Wakefield, Jr., were jointly indicted for using the mails in aid of a scheme to defraud and to obtain money by false and fraudulent pretenses contrary to section 21-5 of the Penal Code. The Wakefields pleaded guilty. Blanton and Chinn were tried, convicted, and sentenced, and they separately prosecuted these writs of error. Another party who was discharged at the trial is excluded from the list of defendants. The assignments of error which merit notice may be grouped according to the general subjects to which they…
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