Chapa v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas; Duval West, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Antonio Cisneros Chapa. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
FOSTER, District Judge.
Defendants, husband and wife, were indicted in three counts for using the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud, and were convicted.
The indictment charges substantially that the defendants had devised a scheme and artifice to defraud certain Mexicans, and for obtaining money by means of false representations and promises; that they would inaugurate and maintain a propaganda to be carried on by means of personal solicitation and advertisement, and representations and promises contained in letters and circular letters and circulars and books and leaflets and other…
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