Buie v. United States

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

Vivian Wycliff Buie- appeals from a judgment, entered on a- verdict of guilty-, *849returned on an indictment which charged, in six counts, that, together with Edwin P. Knotts and Cary M. Buie, he had devised a scheme to defraud divers persons, by inducing them to invest in certain oil and gas properties, by means of false and fraudulent representations, and had mailed and caused to be mailed various letters in execution of the scheme, in violation of section 338, title 18 U. S. C. (18 USCA § 338). The seventh count charged a conspiracy to commit the substantive offense, but…