Legal Opinion
United States v. Edward Earl Hopkins
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 17, 1966No. 16129PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREEN, District Judge.
Defendant-appellant, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted by a jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee on a two-count indictment charging violations of the “mail fraud” statute, 18 U. S.C. § 1341. 1
The scheme to defraud, as charged in the indictment, was basically as follows.
Beginning on or about December 26, 1963 defendant devised a seheme to obtain money by means of false pretenses from Richard F. Wilburn, J. D. Gray, and others who would respond by mail to a newspaper advertisement which had been placed in two…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Parr v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
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3Cited by31 opinions
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