Doyle v. United States

SEVERENS, Circuit Judge.

The indictment in this case contained six counts. The plaintiff in error was convicted upon the first three, *626and was acquitted, by direction of'the court, of the offenses alleged in the other three. The first three of the counts charged the defendant, Doyle, and other persons, who were not found, with having violated the provisions of section 5480 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3696) by using the mails of the United States for the promotion of a scheme devised by them to defraud the persons severally mentioned in the said three counts and other…