United States v. Easterday

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The gravamen of the crime alleged was receiving money and securities from putative customers for the purchase and sale of shares of stock without executing their orders. The evidence was ample to show that the defendants made no effort to fulfill the contracts which they professed to make, but merely pocketed the proceeds, and, upon being doled ed in New York where they first carried on, took up new quarters in Washington and there continued. There is no pretence of de-fence on the merits as to Easterday, though Charles and Harry Greenhaus argue that the evidence did…