Whitehead v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama; Wm. I. Grubb, Judge. Bee A. Whitehead and others were convicted under Pen. Code, § 215, and bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
BATTS, Circuit Judge.
Lee and F. A. Whitehead, L. F. Harris, and the Standard Home Company were indicted for fraudulent use of the mails. Each of the 42 counts of the indictment charged that the defendants devised a scheme involving “the sale of contracts”; the contracts having pertinent features as follows:(1) The purchaser paid at the time of the application $6, and was thereafter to pay $6 per month for 80 months. The first $6 were retained by the agent, and the first, second, and third monthly installments by the company; $4.75 of each subsequent monthly installment became a part of what…
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