Looker v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Pierre M. Doolcer. From a judgment of conviction, defendant brings error. Looker was found guilty of a “scheme to defraud,” toward the execution of which the mail was used; the indictment being under section 215 of the Criminal Code (Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, 35 Stat. 1103 [Comp. St. 1913, ,§ 10385]).
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, Circuit Judge.
Although the indictment contained seven counts upon which the jury found Looker guilty, the variations between the counts being only in respect of the persons defrauded, and the letters mailed, a summary of one charge is sufficient for the purposes of this writ.
The charge was that Looker, with one McLaughlin (who died before trial), devised a scheme for obtaining money by false pretenses from divers persons, by means of selling the stock and debenture certificates of a corporation, hereinafter called the Monaton Company, and thereupon in furtherance thereof sent by mail…
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