McLendon v. United States

MOORMAN, Circuit Judge.

T. E. Mc-Lendon and Keith Tillman were charged under section-215 of the Penal Code (Comp. St. § 10385) with using the mails in the execution of a scheme to defraud. The act alleged was the mailing of a circular containing false representations as to the pedigree and registry of four dogs. Tillman entered a plea of nolo contendere, and McLendon was convicted, fined $1,000, and sentenced to the penitentiary for three years and.a half. Numerous questions are argued in'his behalf as presenting error. We shall diseuss only those which will probably be raised on another trial.