Waggoner v. United States

MATHEWS, Circuit Judge,

p, Waggoner and eight others1 were jndicted for violating § 215 of the Criminal Codej 18 U.S.C.A. § 338.2 The in-djcjmcnt was jn sjx counts. Each count charged that, having devised a scheme to defraud and for obtaining money and property by means of false and fraudulent Pretenses, representations and prom-ises> Waggoner and his codefendants, for the purpose of executing the scheme, placed a described letter in the United States post office at Los Angeles, California, to be sent and delivered by the *868post office establishment of the United States. Waggoner and seven of…