Brown v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.
Albert H. Brown, Joseph Ricker, Charles R. Ricker, and Thomas Evans, otherwise called William Marvin, were jointly charged in three indictments with having deposited certain letters in the mail in the execution of a scheme or artifice to defraud. Each indictment originally contained three counts, each charging the mailing of a separate letter. Two counts, one in the first indictment and one in the second, were eliminated by a nolle prosequi, and may be desregarded. The second and third indictments related to the same scheme or artifice, and the first related to a…
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