Mitchell v. Hunter

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas denying discharge in habeas corpus proceedings.

Petitioner was tried and convicted upon an indictment containing eight counts charging violations of the Mail Fraud Statute. Section 215 of the Criminal Code, 35 Stat. 1130, 18 U.S.C.A. 338. Each of the counts charged petitioner with having devised a continuing scheme or artifice to defraud persons named in the indictment by the sale, recordation and delivery of oil and gas lease assignments on lands owned by the State of New…