Weeber v. United States

BREWER, Circuit Justice.

Section 5480, Rev. St., as amended by the act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. 873), so far as is material, provides that:

“If any person having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud * * 4 to be effected by either opening or intending to open correspondence or communication with any person whether resident within or outside the United States, by means of the post office establishment of the United States, or by inciting such other person or any person to open communication with the. person so devising or intending, shall in and for executing such…