Tucker v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Kentucky; A. M. J. Cochran, Judge. Charles T. Tucker was convicted for using the mails to effect a scheme to defraud, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff in error (whom we shall call defendant) was indicted under section 215 of the Criminal Code of the United States for using the mails to effect a scheme to defraud. The defendant, who resided at Frankfort, Ky., on February 20, 1911, ordered from one Gill, a retail dealer in jewelry at St. Louis, Mo. (at which place defendant had formerly lived), a described style of wedding ring. The ring was received, and on March 6th following defendant mailed Gill a check for .$8 covering the payment, and in a postscript to the letter of remittance said that, if Gill had a…
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