Meyers v. United States

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

In 1938 appellant Meyers and eight others were indicted in ten counts for violation of the mail fraud statute, 18 U.S. C.A. § 338, in two counts for violations of the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U.S.C.A. § 77q(a) (1), and in one count for conspiracy to violate the mail fraud statute and the Securities Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 88. The jury found guilty four of the defendants named in the indictment but disagreed as to Meyers.1 On Meyers’ retrial the jury *664returned a verdict of guilty under the ten counts charging mail fraud, not guilty under the two counts charging violations…