Stryker v. United States

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

J. V. Stryker was tried, convicted and sentenced upon an indictment containing seven counts for violations of section 215 of the Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C.A. § 338.

Count one of the indictment alleged that the defendant unlawfully and fraudulently devised a scheme and artifice for obtaining money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises from W. G. Loberding and other persons to the grand jurors unknown; that the substance of the scheme so devised was that defendant would represent that he, as a contractor, was negotiating with…