Colt v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. Olcott C. Colt was convicted of using the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
REED, District Judge.
The plaintiff in error, who will be called the defendant, was convicted of having used the United States mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud, in violation of section 5480 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3696).
The third count of the indictment,- upon which alone the defendant was convicted, charged the scheme as devised by him substantially as follows: That defendant should falsely pretend and represent that he was engaged in a general real estate brokerage and money lending business in New York City, with offices…
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