Stokes v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE "c SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ABABAMA. This was an indictment against the defendant Stokes and thirteen others for a conspiracy to commit the offence described in Rev. Stat. § 5480, of using the post office establishment of the United States for fraudulent purposes.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE "c SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ABABAMA. This was an indictment against the defendant Stokes and thirteen others for a conspiracy to commit the offence described in Rev. Stat. § 5480, of using the post office establishment of the United States for fraudulent purposes. The artifice was described as one wherein each of the defendants represented himself as a dealer in various kinds of merchandise, certifying each other to be financially responsible, and ordering merchandise from various parties, having no intention of paying for the same. Upon the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
delivered the opinión of the court.
Error is assigned to the action of the court in overruling a demurrer to the indictment, and to the introduction of certain testimony.
1. The indictment is claimed to be defective in failing to set out with sufficient certainty the agreement showing the conspiracy. The indictment is for a conspiracy, Rev. Stat. § 5440, to commit an offence described in section 5480, as amended by the act of March '2, 1889, c. 393, 25 Stat. 873, which reads as follows: “ If any person having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud . . . to be effected…
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